Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore, Max Beerbohm and Henry James, among others.

This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J.

Octopus merged with Reed International in 1987, who then sold their entire trade-oriented publishing assets to Random House in 1997.

[4] The company also released a number of works translated into English under the branding of "Heinemann's International Library", edited by Edmund Gosse.

[8] The company published the British version of Scribners' Great Educators series under the title Heinemann's Great Educators series, but did not include credits for the original American editor, Nicholas Murray Butler,[9] an omission for which they were criticized.

[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.

[12][13] 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.

[16] BTR bought Thomas Tilling in 1983, and were not interested in its publishing division, so Heinemann was put on the block.

[21] In 1957, Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) created the African Writers Series, spearheaded by Alan Hill and West Africa specialist Van Milne, to focus on publishing the writers of Africa such as Chinua Achebe, who was the first advisory editor of the series.