Lord of the Flies, livre ebook

William Golding was born at St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, in 1911. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He joined the Navy in 1940, and served in cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, and a rocket-ship, which he came to be in command of at the end of the war. He saw action against submarines and aircrafts..ect. In 1945, he was appointed a school-master at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, where he has remained ever since. Outside writing, Golding's main interests are sailing and classical Greek, which he avidly reads. In 1961-62 he was a visiting professor at Hollins College, Virginia. He is now Fellow of the Royal Society in Literature. Golding wrote a great deal of poetry, and a play entitled Brass Butterfly, which he published m 1958. He elicited public recognition when he published his first novel Lord of the Flies in 1954. He has undoubtedly established a literary reputation for himself by Lord of the Flies and his subsequent novels: The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), and Free Fall (1959).