Victor Gollancz was a teacher, publisher, author and campaigner who spent his life passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. If it's as a publisher that he is remembered above all, nonetheless in many ways he epitomised the social conscience of the mid-twentieth century: he founded the Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign Against Capital Punishment. For this biography, first published in 1987, Ruth Dudley Edwards had access to all the Gollancz family and firm papers, and produced an honest, searching work which not only reveals an extraordinary man but throws light on many of the political and social events of his times.
'Frequently gripping and always readable.' John Gross,
Observer
'Consistently enthralling and a brilliant achievement.' Hilary Rubinstein,
Spectator
'One of the fullest and richest portraits of a contemporary individual we have had.' Anthony Curtis,
Financial Times
'I would trust anyone's life to Ruth Dudley Edwards.' Terence De Vere White,
Irish Times
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Notes
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE : CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER TWO : SCHOOLDAYS
- CHAPTER THREE : UNIVERSITY
- CHAPTER FOUR : SERVING: A SOLDIER?
- CHAPTER FIVE : SERVING: A TEACHER!
- CHAPTER SIX : FINDING A DIRECTION
- CHAPTER SEVEN : PUBLISHER: THE YOUNG TURK
- CHAPTER EIGHT : PUBLISHER: THE INDEPENDENT
- CHAPTER NINE : HISTORY AROUND HIM
- CHAPTER TEN : THE ORGANIZER
- CHAPTER ELEVEN : A POWER IN THE LAND
- CHAPTER TWELVE : SQUEEZED BY IDEOLOGY
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN : RETREAT FROM MOSCOW
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN : MEANWHILE …
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN : WAR: EMBRACING TOO MUCH
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN : WAR: BREAKDOWN AND RECOVERY
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : POST-WAR: THE EMERGING PHILANTHROPIST
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : CAUSES
- CHAPTER NINETEEN : MORE CAUSES
- CHAPTER TWENTY : MEANWHILE …
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : 1950: A YEAR IN THE LIFE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : APOGEE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : AND MORE CAUSES
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : THE ABSOLUTIST CONSCIENCE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE : THE GENERATION GAP
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX : ODES TO JOY
- EPILOGUE
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Plates
- Copyright
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