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William Golding's Lord of the Flies

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

William Golding's Lord of the Flies

By John Carey

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In 1954 William Golding was 43 years old and a nobody. He had been demobbed from the navy at the end of World War Two and returned to his pre-war job teaching English at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. Always hard up, he lived in what he called a "lousy council flat" with his wife, Ann, and their two young children. In 1952 he finished the novel that was to become Lord of the Flies, and sent it to five publishers and a literary agency. They all rejected it. The sixth publisher he tried ...Show more

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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9781907776625

Publisher

CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

William Golding's Lord of the Flies

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Paperback

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