The Spire: With an introduction by John Mullan - Softcover

Golding, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571307825 ISBN 13: 9780571307821

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

From William Golding - the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and author of Lord of the Flies - The Spire is a dark portrait of one man's obsession, and the folly that his overreaching ambition creates.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He is the author of How Novels Work (OUP) and Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eightenth Century (OUP). He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. A broadcaster and journalist as well as an academic, he writes a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571307825
• ISBN 13: 9780571307821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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