This was Levy's first book to face the difficult environment for literary novels produced by the rise of Amazon
and the end of regulation for book prices. Less commercial, more cerebral fiction was no longer...
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Seamus Heaney
A paperback from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
appeared in 1985. SH
issued a revised edition of this poem ten years later through Faber and Faber
as Sweeney's Flight. In this edition some passages appear...
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Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction.
Messerli, Douglas. Djuna Barnes: A Bibliography. David Lewis.
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Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas.
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Iris Murdoch
The first novel which IM
offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot
for Faber and Faber
; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
A bomb on the London offices of Faber
destroyed (among other things) the typescript of AU
's play Little Grey Rabbit to the Rescue, which had been rejected for the stage by the Theatre Royal, Windsor
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P. D. James
She used her maiden name for this and all her subsequent publications, as James was the essential me and my family name from the beginning.
DB
had tried to find a publisher for Nightwood while she was living in New York, but the manuscript was turned down repeatedly. Emily Coleman
suggested revisions, which Barnes carried out. Coleman also exploited literary...
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Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he...
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Djuna Barnes
T. S. Eliot
was once again instrumental in editing her manuscript and recommending it for publication with Faber and Faber
. However, he wrote a blurb for the play which suggested frustration at DB
's...
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Julia O'Faolain
This novel met with the threat of a libel action (about which Charles Monteith
of Faber and Faber
was stoical) from a woman whom JOF
described in hyperbolic terms as having a termite-infested bed. O'Faolain...
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T. S. Eliot
Its date—the first celebration during World War Two of the Christian festival of resurrection—was significant, and was also a factor in the poem's impact. Reprinted as a separate publication by Faber and Faber
in May...
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Alison Uttley
After many rejections, AU
began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber
in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels
. Years later, a...
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Ann Jellicoe
The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court
, despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ
credits John Osborne
for persuading them to produce...
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Texts
Larkin, Philip. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber, 1992.
Larkin, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964.
Lavery, Bryony. A Wedding Story. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Lavery, Bryony. Frozen. Faber and Faber, 2002.
Lavery, Bryony. “More Light”. New Connections, edited by Nick Drake, Faber and Faber, 1997.
Lavery, Bryony. More Light. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Lawrence, D. H. Pornography and Obscenity. Faber and Faber, 1929.
Lewis, Wyndham. One-Way Song. Faber and Faber, 1933.
Mirrlees, Hope. A Fly in Amber. Faber and Faber, 1962.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Big House. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Mitchison, Naomi. Travel Light. Faber and Faber, 1952.
Moody, Theodore William, and James Camlin Beckett. Queen’s, Belfast 1845-1949: The History of a University. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Moore, Marianne. Collected Poems. Faber and Faber, 1951.
Moore, Marianne. New Collected Poems. Editor White, Heather Cass, Faber and Faber, 2017.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline at Garsington. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1974.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1963.
Morris, Jan. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Morris, Jan. Faber and Faber, 1965.
Morris, Jan. Cities. Faber and Faber, 1963.
Morris, Jan. Farewell the Trumpets. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Morris, Jan. Heaven’s Command. Faber and Faber, 1973.
Morris, Jan. Manhattan ’45. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Morris, Jan. Pax Britannica. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Morris, Jan. Sultan in Oman. Faber and Faber, 1957.