Faber and Faber

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...

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.

PL had already begun to produce some of the poems that were later to make him known (including Wedding Wind, written in 1946). Towards the end of 1947 he typed up for Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber 's Grimm Tales, 1996, brings together CAD 's versions with Supple's (often only slightly changed) performance scripts, with Melanie Still 's illustrations, and various kinds of information designed to assist new...

AS 's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press , whose editor Jon Stallworthy had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber for supremacy as the...

After years of dissatisfaction at the small price she was paid for her books, AU was staggered in March 1942 at receiving a royalty cheque from Faber for £297. A year later her royalty...

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.

Faber printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.

AU kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...

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...

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...

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...