Lord of the Flies :Deluxe Anniversary Edition
Lord of the Flies :Deluxe Anniversary Edition
hardback
Published:
7 November, 2024
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Description
The iconic classic in a luxurious anniversary edition, with a foreword by Stephen King.
'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous . . .
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571390762 |
| ISBN10 | 0571390765 |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Main - 70th anniversary hardback edition |
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Author's Bio
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated in Marlborough and Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of the Netherlands. 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 35 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