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ISBN
9780571231645
Published
2010-09-02
Publisher
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Weight
486 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
126 mm
Thickness
37 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
592
Author
Biographical note
John Carey is Emeritus Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, as well as The Intellectuals and the Masses. He is the editor of Faber anthologies of Reportage, Utopias and Science. His most recent book, What Good are the Arts?, was praised by Blake Morrison as 'incisive and inspirational.'
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.
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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.
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<b><i>William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies </i>is the first biography of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Golding by celebrated writer and critic John Carey. </b>
Product details
ISBN
9780571231645
Published
2010-09-02
Publisher
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Weight
486 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
126 mm
Thickness
37 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
592
Author