Faber and Faber

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her father, Sean O'Faolain , had included in his Collected Stories, 1983, a piece whose title reproduces the Yeats phrase exactly: No Country for Old Men.JOF got the idea for this novel...

In order that her son should be the illustrator of this volume, Cornford rejected an offer from Faber and Faber to publish her poems.

Invited by Richard de la Mare in February 1934 to write a successor to The Country Child, AU first planned a fictional treatment to be called High Meadows (published in 1938), then began in...

The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott , who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in...

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.

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 ).

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...