After two world wars (1936)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
He often told trainees that they never knew whom their client might be dining with that night. A striking case of this wisely democratic strategy involved publisher Fredric Warburg, a descendant of the Swedish Warburgs, who bought Martin Seeker’s foundering publishing house in 1936. (He is not to be confused with Felix’s son, Frederick.) When Victor Gollancz refused to publish George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Fredric snapped it up.
chapter: 38 - The Upstart