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...
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Deborah Levy
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...
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Alison Uttley
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...
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Lucy Boston
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...
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Seamus Heaney
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...
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Iris Murdoch
The first novel which IM
offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot
for Faber and Faber
; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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W. H. Auden
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Carol Ann Duffy
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...
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Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
260
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Harold Pinter
Faber
printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French
issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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Alison Uttley
A bomb on the London offices of Faber
destroyed (among other things) the typescript of AU
's play Little Grey Rabbit to the Rescue, which had been rejected for the stage by the Theatre Royal, Windsor
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W. H. Auden
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...
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...
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Texts
Coward, Rosalind. Our Treacherous Hearts. Faber and Faber, 1992.