ABSTRACT
Critical Books was an English publishing firm located in London. In terms of output Critical Books was a medium-sized firm in the British publishing industry. Unlike many publishers of its size and type, the firm had remained completely independent during a period when the publishing trade as a whole had experienced a great many mergers and takeovers. Critical Books was a literary publishing house. It had a fifty-year-old tradition of literary and literary-critical publishing. In that time it had been in the forefront of most of the important movements in that field. A large proportion of the British novelists and poets who had emerged in the inter-war years, and several since, had originally appeared under Critical Books’ imprint. Many major figures continued to do so.
