The Bodley Head

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The Bodley Head is a historic British publishing house known for producing influential literary works and championing innovative and sometimes controversial authors.

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instanceOf company
publishing house
acquiredBy Random House
country United Kingdom
focus controversial literature
innovative literature
foundedBy Elkin Mathews
John Lane
genre literary fiction
modernist literature
non-fiction
hasNotableSeries The Bodley Head self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Bodley Head Henry James series

The Bodley Head self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald series
hasReputation high literary standards
intellectually rigorous list
imprintOf Vintage Books
inception 1887
industry book publishing
knownFor championing experimental fiction
publishing controversial works
publishing modernist writers
languageOfPublication English
legalForm limited company
location London, England
surface form: London
namedAfter Bodleian Library
notableAuthorPublished Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arnold Bennett
Brian W. Aldiss
surface form: Brian Aldiss

George Bernard Shaw
Graham Greene
Herbert George Wells
surface form: H. G. Wells

J. B. Priestley
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
notableWorkPublished Ulysses
parentOrganization Penguin Random House
surface form: Penguin Random House UK

Vintage Publishing
publishingFormat hardcover books
paperback books
specializesIn history books
ideas and current affairs
politics books
science books
serious non-fiction
status active

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