Faber and Faber

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

DB 's novel Nightwood was published in London by Faber and Faber .

The book was first published in London by Faber and Faber ; the following year, it was published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company .

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...

She used her maiden name for this and all her subsequent publications, as James was the essential me and my family name from the beginning. She published the book with 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...

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 ).

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 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.