Faber and Faber

GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).

The Farm on the Hill brought AU a thirty-pound advance from Faber . At a price of seven and sixpence, it sold 1,300 copies by the autumn.

He published the book with Gollancz after it was rejected by Cape and Faber . He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...

At the end of that year, Faber rejected The Secret Spring, as did another publisher in February 1933. AU then wrote off that project, since she had plenty more on hand. When Cuckoo...

PL 's second novel, A Girl in Winter, appeared, having been placed by his agent, A. P. Watt , with Faber and Faber . It sold 5,000 copies in the year of its publication...

AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication, and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...

She meant this book to be a saga of English working-class life in the twentieth century, based on her own family, but found she was writing about the horrors of factory farming. Writing at a...

PL 's The Whitsun Weddings, his first poetry publication with Faber and Faber , resulted from an invitation from Charles Monteith of that company, issued years earlier after he had read Church Going in The Spectator.

The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann took it on. One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press , probably because it turned out too long...

This time Faber paid her £10,000, but they did not come up to their magnificent plans for handling the paperback. About now MG left her agent for a younger one, a woman.

From the time she moved south, her output was staggering. Between 1942 and 1945, she published fifteen prose books and a play, as well as placing articles and making broadcasts. In autumn 1944, she began...

The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944. A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...

LB was already a passionate painter when she turned to writing, infused with enthusiasm by the house she had bought. The manor gave her the inspiration for her books, and she has said that All...

It appeared in a version which is only about half as long as the original. Eric Gillett , the editor, compressed the book by fifty thousand words, partly because of wartime paper shortage, but partly...

This book caused AU much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she...