CONNELL GUIDE TO WILLIAM GOLDING S LORD
CONNELL GUIDE TO WILLIAM GOLDING S LORD In 1954 William Golding was 43 years old and a nobody. Always hard up, he lived in what he called a "lousy council flat" with his wife, Ann, and their two…
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CONNELL GUIDE TO WILLIAM GOLDING S LORD
In 1954 William Golding was 43 years old and a nobody. Always hard up, he lived in what he called a "lousy council flat" with his wife, Ann, and their two young children. He had been demobbed from the navy at the end of World War Two and returned to his pre-war job teaching English at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.
They all rejected it. In 1952 he finished the novel that was to become Lord of the Flies, and sent it to five publishers and a literary agency. The sixth publisher he tried was Faber and Faber, and the professional reader wrote her opinion on the typescript: "Time the Future.
Absurd & uninteresting fantasy about the explosion of an atom bomb on the Colonies. A group of children who land in jungle country near New Guinea. Rubbish & dull." But the novel was rescued from the reject pile by a new recruit to Faber, and when it was finally published in September 1954 the
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