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BIOGRAPHY WILLIAM GOLDING: THE MAN WHO WROTE LORD OF THE FLIES BY JOHN CAREY (Faber Pounds 25) OLD Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot remains, courtesy of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most valuable book on the Faber and Faber backlist, but William Golding's Lord Of The Flies must run it a close second. The novel has sold 20 million copies in the UK alone since it first appeared in 1954.
Its rocky road to publication has become the stuff of literary legend. Golding, then a 42-year-old schoolmaster with three unpublished novels in his desk drawer, had seen the book rejected by most of London's leading publishers, including Faber, whose reader dismissed it as an 'absurd and uninteresting fantasy about the explosion of an atom bomb in the Colonies. Rubbish and dull. Pointless.' Fortunately, Charles Monteith, a senior editor at the firm, rescued the novel from the slush pile and decided that, after extensive rewriting, it would be published.See the full content of this document
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Adolescent Angst From a Tortured Soul [Scot Region]
It garnered huge acclaim at home and overseas, above all in America, where it replaced The Catcher In The Rye as the novel of adolescent angst.
Golding's reputation was made. He went on to write ...See the full content of this document
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