Lord of the Flies - Educational Edition

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 Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who! after a plane crash! set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them! the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive. Lord of the Flies is William Golding's classic debut novel, now one of the most celebrated literary works of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. This edition, which includes an introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes, meets the demand for its use in schools and its prescription by numerous examining boards. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of younger readers not only in this country but overseas.

Product details

• Authors: William Golding
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.07.2004
• EAN: 9780571056866
• ISBN: 978-0-571-05686-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying, JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, Adventure stories (Children's/YA), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories, Reading Age: From C 14 Years (Young Adult), Thrillers (Children's/Ya)