random house uk trade houghton mifflin harcourt us education founded 1890 ; 126 years ago 1890 founder william heinemann country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london uk portsmouth new hampshire us official website www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk uk education www.randomhouse.co.uk uk trade www.heinemann.com us education heinemann is a publishing house that was founded in 1890 in the uk . heinemann has published the works of many notable authors including chinua achebe w. somerset maugham j. b. priestley and h. g. wells . 1 the company has also published numerous english translations and significant non fiction work such as the loeb classical library . after being taken over by doubleday in 1920 the imprints have had a number of corporate owners . today the uk education imprint is owned by pearson the uk trade publications are owned by random house and the us education imprint is owned by houghton mifflin harcourt . contents 1 history 2 published works 3 references 4 external links history edit william heinemann began working in the publishing industry under nicolas tr bner 2 who was a major publisher of what was called oriental scholarship . 3 when two years after tr bner s death his company was taken over by the firm of kegan paul heinemann left and founded william heinemann ltd in covent garden london in 1890 . 2 the first title published was hall caine s the bondman which was a stunning success selling more than 450 000 copies . 4 the company also released a number of works translated into english under the branding of heinemann s international library edited by edmund gosse . 5 in 1893 sydney pawling became a partner . 6 7 they became known for publishing the works of sarah grand . 8 the company published the british version of scribners great education series under the title heinemann s great education series but did not include credits for the original american editor nicholas murray butler an omission for which they were criticized . 8 between 1895 and 1897 heinemann was the publisher of william ernest henley s periodical new review . 9 in the late 1890s heinemann and the american publisher frank doubleday financially supported joseph conrad during his initial attempt at writing what eventually became the rescue and heinemann was the british publisher for conrad s the nigger of the narcissus in 1897 . 7 one of the company s businesses at that time was to sell english books to a japan that was beginning to be interested in items of western culture . heinemann sold to the japanese bookstore maruzen translations of the works of dostoyevsky and 5000 copies of mutual aid a factor of evolution by peter kropotkin . 10 in 1912 the company began publishing the loeb classical library series publications of ancient works with the greek or latin text on the left hand page and a literal translation on the right hand page . 11 the series has been called the most significant of the parallel text translations . 11 since 1934 it has been co published with harvard university . 11 12 on heinemann s death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by u.s. publisher doubleday 6 with theodore byard who had previously been a professional singer joining to lead the offices . 6 a subsidiary company was established in the hague in 1953 ; originally intended to distribute works in english to continental europe it eventually began to directly print heinemann s books as well . 4 the company was later acquired by conglomerate thomas tilling in 1961 . when the impending takeover became known graham greene who had been with heinemann since his first work in 1929 13 led a number of heinemann authors who protested by taking their works to other publishers including the bodley head of which greene was a director . 13 14 btr bought thomas tilling in 1983 and were not interested in its publishing division so heinemann was put on the block . heinemann was purchased by the octopus publishing group in 1985 ; octopus was purchased by reed international now reed elsevier in 1987 . random house bought heinemann s trade publishing now named william heinemann in 1997 . heinemann s educational unit became part of harcourt education when reed elsevier purchased the company in 2001 . pearson purchased the uk south african australian and new zealand arms of harcourt education in may 2007 while houghton mifflin purchased the american operations a few months later . in 1957 heinemann educational books created the african writers series spearheaded by alan hill and west africa specialist van milne which focused on publishing the writers of africa like chinua achebe . heinemann was awarded the 1992 worldaware award for social progress . 15 the series was relaunched by pearson in 2011 . 16 17 inspired by the african writers series leon comber launched the writing in asia series in 1966 from singapore . two austin coates books in the series myself a mandarin and city of broken promises became bestsellers but the series after publishing more than 70 titles was to fold in 1984 when heinemann asia was taken over by a parent group of publishers . 18 published works edit backhouse sir edmund ; bland john otway percy 1914 . annals & memoirs of the court of peking from the 16th to the 20th century . w. heinemann . retrieved 1 april 2013 . references edit the encyclopedia of twentieth century fiction . john wiley & sons . 2010 12 08 . isbn 9781405192446 . a b the publishers circular and booksellers record of british and foreign literature . sampson low marston & company . 1895 . pp. 49 . tr bner s american and oriental literary record . tr bner & company . 1884 . pp. 48 . a b eliot simon ; rose jonathan 2009 04 06 . a companion to the history of the book . john wiley & sons . pp. 343 . isbn 9781405192781 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . mosse werner eugen ; carlebach julius . second chance two centuries of german speaking jews in the united kingdom . mohr siebeck . pp. 196 . isbn 9783161457418 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . a b c kipling rudyard 1990 . the letters of rudyard kipling 1920 30 . university of iowa press . pp. 43 . isbn 9780877458982 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . a b ray martin 2007 . joseph conrad memories and impressions an annotated bibliography . rodopi . pp. 37 . isbn 9789042022980 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . a b the bookman . dodd mead and company . 1895 . pp. 214 . wertheim stanley 1997 . a stephen crane encyclopedia . greenwood publishing group . pp. 151 . isbn 9780313296925 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . checkland olive 2003 . japan and britain after 1859 creating cultural bridges . psychology press . pp. 67 . isbn 9780700717477 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . a b c france peter 2001 12 13 . the oxford guide to literature in english translation . oxford university press . pp. 503 . isbn 9780199247844 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . hall max 1986 . harvard university press a history . harvard university press . pp. 64 . isbn 9780674380806 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . a b west w. j. 2002 08 01 . the quest for graham greene . macmillan . pp. 182 . isbn 9780312314781 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . greene richard 2011 04 20 . graham greene a life in letters . random house digital inc. pp. 330 . isbn 9780307369369 . retrieved 1 january 2013 . worldaware business awards 1992 williamson tea award for social progress . worldaware.org.uk . retrieved 2013 08 28 . pearson revives african writers series calls for submissions naija stories 4 august 2011 . nicholas norbrook publishing africa writers series celebrates 50 years the africa report 29 february 2012 . comber leon 1991 . asian voices in english . hong kong university press . pp. 79 86 . isbn 9622092829 . retrieved 10 april 2016 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to heinemann publisher . official website uk education official website us charles pick heinemann group managing director 1979 1985 archive university of east anglia v t e bertelsmann rtl group 75.1 % de at ch tv n tv rtl rtl iijv rtl crime rtl living rtl nitro rtl passion super rtljv vox radio 89.0 rtl 104.6 rtl bigfm radio hamburg rtl radio rtl nederland nl tv rtl 4 rtl 5 rtl 7 rtl 8 rtl z rtl crime rtl lounge rtl telekids m6 group fr ; 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