William Golding. Stated first American edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $3.95 on inside flap. Jacket design by Anita Walker Scott. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Red cloth with silver and black lettering on the spine. No writing or markings in this well preserved copy, 175 pp.
The renowned British authors 6th novel with the first being Lord of the Flies. The books is a collection of articles from the 1950's and 1960's written and selected by the author, which give us fresh perspectives on the familiar and carry us into unfamiliar territory. Like other works from Golding, these, too, are marked by his characteristic wit and wisdom. It is divided into four sections, discussing "People and Places," "Books," "Westward Look," and "Caught in a Bush." In "Books," the essay "Fable" answered questions about Lord of the Flies, based on lectures Golding gave at UCLA, hoping it would answer many of the questions from the students.
Golding won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature and he was posthumously named the third greatest British writer since 1945 (out of 50) by Time Magazine in 2008.
