William Heinemann

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About William Heinemann:

Started in business:1890

Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. 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.

Books published by William Heinemann in the database

• The Time Machine (1895)

• The Island Of Doctor Moreau (1896)

• The Invisible Man (1897)

• The War Of The Worlds (1898)

• When The Sleeper Wakes (1899)

• The First Men In The Moon (1901)

• The Food Of The Gods And How It Came To Earth (1904)

• In The Days Of The Comet (1906)

• The Sleeper Awakes (1910)

• The Book of Wonder (1912)

• Men Like Gods (1923)

• The Dream (1924)

• The Shape Of Things To Come (1933)

• Star Begotten (1937)