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ORIGINS The firm was founded in 1925 as Faber and Gwyer, as a successor to '' The Scientific Press '', owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. They brought in Geoffrey Faber , then a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford . In 1929 the partnership in the firm was terminated, and the name Faber and Faber was then adopted; although Geoffrey Faber was the only Faber in the firm it was deemed that adding a second Faber to the firm's name would confer a little class. ROLE IN PUBLISHING It played an important part in Twentieth Century British and world literature, publishing widely in the fields of Novel s and Literary Criticism , as well as Poetry and Drama . It has employed distinguished literary figures as editors; as well as Eliot (until 1965), these include William Plomer and Craig Raine . An early commercial success was ''Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man'', by Siegfried Sassoon (1928), at first issued anonymously. The Faber Book Of Modern Verse was an influential anthology, first edited by Michael Roberts . In the U.S. , Faber and Faber is an imprint of Farrar, Straus And Giroux . SEE ALSO
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