A Gollancz edition of The Door Into Summer, displaying the distinctive yellow dust jacket style.

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the 20th century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz (1893–1967) and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, non fiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Image File history File links The_Door_Into_Summer. ... Image File history File links The_Door_Into_Summer. ... The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1957. ... 1. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893–February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

Gollancz was left-inclined in politics and a supporter of socialist movements. This is reflected in some of the books he published. Victor Gollancz commissioned George Orwell to write about the urban working class in the North of England, the result was The Road to Wigan Pier. His break with Orwell came when he declined to publish Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia; the pair having drifted apart on political grounds. Gollancz was the original publisher of a number of famous authors and their books including:

• George Orwell with Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933
• A.J. Cronin with The Citadel in 1937
• Daphne du Maurier with Rebecca in 1938
• Kingsley Amis with Lucky Jim in 1953
• E.P. Thompson with The Making of the English Working Class in 1963
• Anthony Price with The Labyrinth Makers in 1971.

Many of Gollancz's books were published in one of their familiar house dust jackets, of which the most famous was bright yellow, with the title and author rendered in a vibrant, bold typography. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwells semi-autobiographical account of living in poverty in both cities. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... A. J. Cronin is the pen-name of the Scottish novelist Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896 - January 9, 1981). ... The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937 (in Britain by Gollancz, July, and in the US by Little, Brown, & Co. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907–19 April 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short stories like The Birds and her classic novel Rebecca, published in 1938, which was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcocks Oscar-winning film. ... Rebecca is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938 and considered to be one of the authors best-known works. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... Christine (Sharon Acker) and Jim (Ian Carmichael) in a cab Lucky Jim is a comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Edward Palmer Thompson (1924-1993) was a historian probably best known for his work The Making of the English Working Class, which included his reassessment of the Luddite movement. ... The Making of the English Working Class is an influential work of English social history, written by E. P. Thompson a notable a New Left historian; it was published in 1963 (revised 1968) by Victor Gollancz Ltd, and later republished at Pelican, becoming an early Open University Set Book. ... For the British fashion designer, see Antony Price. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, his daughter, Livia, became controlling director. She sold it to Houghton Mifflin in 1989. Three years later, in October 1992, Houghton Mifflin sold Gollancz to Cassell. In 1998, the Orion Publishing Group purchased Gollancz from Cassell and turned it into its science fiction and fantasy imprint, Gollancz Science Fiction VGSF. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Orion Publishing Group Ltd. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ...

In 2005 Gollancz set up a manga publishing arm, Gollancz Manga, which publishes UK editions of various Viz Media properties. 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... This article deals with the American media company. ...

The following titles have been published:

• Case Closed (Detective Conan)
• Dragon Ball
• Fushigi Yūgi
• Flame of Recca
• Maison Ikkoku
• One Piece
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Yu-Gi-Oh! (Volumes 1-7 and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist)
• Naruto

Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan ) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since 1994. ... Dragon Ball ) is a Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama serialized in the weekly anthology magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, and originally collected into 42 individual books called tankōbon. ... Fushigi YÅ«gi (ふしぎ遊戯; lit. ... Flame of Recca ) is a Japanese anime and manga series by Nobuyuki Anzai. ... Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻 Mezon Ikkoku) is a manga and anime by Rumiko Takahashi. ... Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Original run August 4, 1997 – (ongoing) No. ... Rurouni Kenshin: Romance of a Meiji Swordsman )[1], a manga and anime series created by mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki, is set during the early Meiji period in Japan. ... Yu-Gi-Oh! , literally Game King [1]) is a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise from Kazuki Takahashi, that mainly involves characters who play a card game called Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), wherein each player purchases and assembles a deck of Monster, Magic, and Trap Cards in... Naruto romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. ...

Sources

Gollancz: the story of a publishing house, 1928-1978 / by Sheila Hodges 1978. Victor Gollancz: a biography / by Ruth Dudley Edwards 1987.

External links

Official Sites

• Orion Publishing Group Official website