Mabel Fierz had pursued matters with Moore, and at the end of June 1932, Moore told Blair that Victor Gollancz was prepared to publish A Scullion's Diary for a £ 40 advance, through his recently founded publishing house, Victor Gollancz Ltd, which was an outlet for radical and socialist works.

He was disappointed when Gollancz turned down Burmese Days, mainly on the grounds of potential suits for libel, but Harpers were prepared to publish it in the United States.

The result of his journeys through the north was The Road to Wigan Pier, published by Gollancz for the Left Book Club in 1937.

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

Kingsley Martin rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

Gollancz refused to publish it, considering it an attack on the Soviet regime which was a crucial ally in the war.

" Victor Gollancz was prepared to publish the work, subject to the removal of bad language and some identifiable names, and offered an advance of £ 40.

Sir Victor Gollancz ( 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967 ) was a British publisher, socialist and supporter of left-wing causes.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Gollancz was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers in October 1915, although he did not see active service.

Gollancz was one of the founders of the Left Book Club, the first book club in the UK.

Although never a member, Gollancz was closely allied to the Communist Party during the second half of the 1930s.

In the early 1940s, Gollancz was sympathetic to Richard Acland's socialist Common Wealth Party, and gave talks for the group before the general election of 1945.

Gollancz often claimed to be a Christian, although he was never baptised and his understanding of the religion was a highly idiosyncratic one, overall his personal syncretic faith drew on Pelagian Christianity, Judaism, and wide-ranging reading across religious traditions.

Gollancz was knighted in the summer of 1965.

In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects, and put his ideas into action by establishing campaigning groups.

" Gollancz proposed a series of practical responses, centred around a rescue plan, and undertook a lecture and fundraising tour ; he was also made Vice-President of Eleanor Rathbone's National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror.

* No Stone Unturned: The Story of the Stone of Destiny, Ian R. Hamilton, Victor Gollancz and also Funk and Wagnalls, 1952, 1953, hardcover, 191 pages, An account of the return of the stone to Scotland in 1950 ( older, but more available, look on ABE )

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

Gollancz was not only a successful publisher but also a dedicated social reformer.

Israel Gollancz also suggested that Polonius might have been a satire on Burghley.

The discovery of a second Hebrew text in the library of Samuel H. Gollancz was published by his son Hermann Gollancz in 1903, who also published a facsimile edition in 1914.

Gollancz also added new titles to the series beginning in April 2010.

He also wrote the well-known book on the arms trade, The Bloody Traffic, published by Gollancz Ltd in 1934.

The collection was also published in London by Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Group, in 2003 with ISBN 0-575-07479-5.

He was also ( not coincidentally ) made chief reader for Victor Gollancz Ltd., where he was involved in the early publication history of George Orwell.

Time in Advance was first published by Bantam Books as a paperback in 1958 and also published as a hardcover in the UK by Victor Gollancz in 1963, followed a hardcover edition in 1964 published in the United Kingdom by the Science Fiction Book Club and by a Panther paperback edition in April 1966.

In addition to books, the LBC also produced a monthly newsletter — with began as a simple club news sheet Left Book News, but gradually developed into a key international political and social affairs paper ( as Left News )-with lengthy editorials from Gollancz.

In April 1945, Gollancz addressed the issue of German collective guilt in a pamphlet ; What Buchenwald Really Means explained that all Germans were not guilty.

" There is really only one method of re-educating people ," explained Gollancz, " namely the example that one lives oneself.

By December 1933 he had typed the final version, and in 1934 he delivered it by motorbike to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz, who had published his previous book.

Gollancz publicised the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime early on, in 1933 he had published the compilation volume The Little Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and Fritz Seidler's book on the Nazi persecution of the Jews The Bloodless Pogrom in 1934.

" His book, Our Threatened Values, ( London, 1946 ) Gollancz described the conditions Sudeten German prisoners faced in a Czech concentration camp: " They live crammed together in shacks without consideration for gender and age ...

' In fact Orwell heard in April 1939 that Gollancz had reservations about the book, and was delaying a decision to accept it.

According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.

When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book.

At some point in the next few days Gollancz asked him to consider a new project-writing a book about unemployment and social conditions in economically depressed northern England.

D. J. Taylor argues that these factors, and the fact that Gollancz was not a person to part with such a sum on speculation, suggest that Gorer was confusing Orwell's eventual earnings from the book with a small contribution for out of pocket expenses that Gollancz might have given him.

However Gollancz feared the second half would offend Left Book Club readers and inserted a mollifying preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

In the April 1937 number of the Left News Gollancz reported that the book had produced: " both more, and more interesting, letters than any other Club Choice.

Gollancz proposed that the source for the character's name and sententious platitudes was De optimo senatore, a book on statesmanship by the Polish courtier Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, which was widely read after it was translated into English and published in 1598 under the title " The Counsellor ".

Matthew Engel, in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press ( Gollancz, 1996 ), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was " a very fine paper indeed ".

" After all, Gollancz is publishing this book.

The Starr Affair was a book written by Jean Overton Fuller and published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.

The first book published by Henry Regnery Publishers was by socialist Victor Gollancz who ran the Left Book Club in Britain.

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century.

First published in 2004 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, the book is Morgan's third novel, the first two being part of the Takeshi Kovacs series.

The supposed publisher of the fake book described in the story was an actual publisher, Victor Gollancz, as was the supposed writer of the preface, Dorothy L. Sayers.

They persuaded Victor Gollancz, creator of the Left Book Club, to publish the book, divided the twenty-four chapters among themselves and wrote it in four days, finishing on June 5, 1940.