To the Ends of the Earth - Softcover

Golding, William.:

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571225411 ISBN 13: 9780571225415

Publisher: Fabe2005, 2005

Synopsis

"To the Ends of the Earth", William Golding's classic sea trilogy, tells the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbot's journal - with equal measures of wit and disdain - it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major three-part BBC drama in 2005.

About this title

About the Author:

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. A now rare volume, Poems, appeared in 1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-day invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. 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.Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in his essay collections.

Review:

"'A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.' Daily Mail; 'The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.' The Times"

About this edition

• Publisher: Fabe2005
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0571225411
• ISBN 13: 9780571225415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784