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Descripción:
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies is now generally recognized as a modern classic and this edition is issued to answer the wide demand for its use in schools and its prescription by numerous examining boards.
Professor Ian Gregor and Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes provide an introduction and a series of notes on the text. In compiling these they have borne in mind the needs of young readers not only in this country but also overseas. The text of the novel itself is republished complete. |
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William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911. He was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasnose College, Oxford, after which he worked as an actor, lecturer, a small craft sailor, a musician, and finally a schoolmaster. He joined to Royal Navy in 1940, and saw action against battleship, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking of the Bismarck, and finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961, and went on to write twelve more novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and The Spire.
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