William Golding. The Man Who Wrote Lord Of The Flies

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 573 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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. Afterwards 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.

ISBN: 9780571231638