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 turned down 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 Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. A new educational edition of Lord of the Flies , William Golding's debut novel, now a classic, fully revised and updated with supplementary material. Zusammenfassung When a plane crashes on a remote island, a group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. As the reality of their situation sets in, the boys attempt to establish control and their world gradually descends into brutal savagery.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: William Golding, GOLDING W
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 20.09.2012
• EAN: 9780571295715
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29571-5
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); 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)