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WILLIAM GOLDING
THE MAN WHO WROTE "LORD OF THE FLIES" |
| By: |
John Carey |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571231632 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571231638 |
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| Publisher: |
FABER AND FABER |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2009 |
| Pages: |
592 |
| Description: |
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. "Lord of the Flies", his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin" and "The Spire". He won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" in 1980, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988. This book presents his biography. |
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The first authorized biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. After wards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. "Lord of the Flies", his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin" and "The Spire". He won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" in 1980, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993. |
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UK |
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Faber and Faber |
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