Faber and Faber

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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.