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Informationen zum Autor William Golding (1911 - 1993 ) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies , his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk Klappentext Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia. From William Golding - winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and author of Lord of the Flie s - To the Ends of the Earth collects all three novels in Golding's classic Sea Trilogy in one volume. Zusammenfassung Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.
