Faber and Faber

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Publishing W. H. Auden
While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot , and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy . He...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
WHA established prominence among his generation of poets with his first commercially published volume, Poems, issued by Faber .
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Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
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Textual Production W. H. Auden
WHA 's second commercially published volume appeared with the title Look, Stranger! Poems by W.H. Auden (chosen at Faber and Faber in his absence in Iceland). He hated the title, and next year's US edition...
Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA published with Random House in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber in London the following year.
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Publishing W. H. Auden
WHA again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House in New York the year before it appeared from Faber in London.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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Residence Djuna Barnes
At the news that Faber and Faber had agreed to publish Nightwood, DB left New York again for Europe, initially to Paris.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin.
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Publishing Djuna Barnes
DB 's novel Nightwood was published in London by Faber and Faber .
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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Publishing Djuna Barnes
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...
Textual Production Djuna Barnes
Nightwood was published in New York in March 1937 by Harcourt Brace , with an introduction by Eliot praising its great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Djuna Barnes
Most of DB 's later publications were collections of previously published works. Her Selected Works, which included Spillway (a collection of short stories), The Antiphon, and Nightwood, were published in the USA...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...
Textual Production Samuel Beckett
It was given in a double bill with the earlier piece Endgame, with Jack McGowran or MacGowran as its protagonist, Clov.
Tóibín, Colm. “My Darlings”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8.
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These two Irish actors, each important for Becket's work, each apparently sought...
Textual Production Samuel Beckett
In 1986 Faber and Faber published SB 's Complete Dramatic Works.

Timeline

1924: Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership...

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1924

Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership with Maurice and Alsina Gwyer , owners of the Scientific Press at 28 Southampton Street, near the Strand, to establish the firm Faber and Gwyer Limited .

1928: The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon,...

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1928

The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon , his early autobiographyMemoirs of a Foxhunting Man, became the first best-seller published by Faber and Faber (which adopted this name the following year).

1929: The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer became...

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1929

The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer became Faber and Faber, when the Gwyer family pulled out.

17 September 1954: William Golding's first novel, The Lord of...

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17 September 1954

William Golding 's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.

Texts

Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Amis, Kingsley, editor. The Faber Popular Reciter. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Auden, W. H. Another Time. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Editor Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber, 1976.
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber, 1969.
Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Auden, W. H., and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Auden, W. H. Look, Stranger!. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Auden, W. H. Poems. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Auden, W. H. Secondary Worlds. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Auden, W. H. Thank You, Fog. Faber and Faber, 1974.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Auden, W. H. The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Auden, W. H. The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Barnes, Djuna. The Antiphon. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Not I. Faber and Faber, 1971.
Benson, Theodora. Best Stories of Theodora Benson. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Benson, Theodora. “Harry was Good to the Girls”. Stories of the Underworld, edited by Peter Cheyney, Faber and Faber, 1942, pp. 191-5.
Benson, Theodora. Sweethearts and Wives. Faber and Faber, 1942.
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. A Stranger at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1961.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. An Enemy at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1964.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Children of Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1954.