Word: faber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher has no present plans to issue the book...
...rest of Miss Dawson's characters suffer in comparison with her heroine, but they are by no means inadequate. Rarely does one suspect them of existing only to focus Josephine's speculations about the world. Her lover, Alasdair Faber, is considerably more probable than his name implies; his combination of worldly sophistication and angry disenchantment reveals itself clearly in the remarks he addresses to Josephine...
...orated poems that Eliot seemed conscious that he was reading publicly, and then he was magnificent. (An exception to all categories, of course, is his delightful "cat" poetry. He read a charming sort of Browning monologue given by an alley cat named Morgan, who wandered into the offices of Faber and Faber in London during the Little Blitz...
...tour, including the Edinburgh Festival and Paris' Théâtre des Nations (see below). Like most plays on the road, Luther may change before London's critics first see it next month, but as it reached the Nottingham boards and was prepared for print by Faber & Faber, it seemed sharply disappointing. For all the fathoms of history through which Playwright Osborne has reached for his subject, the resulting play is hardly an inch deep-a well-narrowed portrait of a broadly complicated...
MARY JANE FABER...