Author: GOLDING, WILLIAM
Title: The Pyramid
Description: London, England: Faber & Faber, 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0571080111. Illustrated by Leonard Rosoman. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and fading to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning wear to the spine ends and corners. The cover art is by Leonard Rosoman. "Oliver, the dispenser's son, adolescent in the England of two-seaters, the silent screen, the Savoy Orpheans. And round him, in the small huddle of houses by a minimal river that is Stillbourne, are woven the complicated, recurring yet never identical patterns of existence; patterns compounded of sex and calf love, rebellion and submission, dottiness, class distinction, tragedy and near-farce." "Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0571080111 Modern Fiction First Editions William Golding Leonard Rosoman England Modern Day life
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Title: The Pyramid
Description: London, England: Faber & Faber, 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0571080111. Illustrated by Leonard Rosoman. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and fading to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning wear to the spine ends and corners. The cover art is by Leonard Rosoman. "Oliver, the dispenser's son, adolescent in the England of two-seaters, the silent screen, the Savoy Orpheans. And round him, in the small huddle of houses by a minimal river that is Stillbourne, are woven the complicated, recurring yet never identical patterns of existence; patterns compounded of sex and calf love, rebellion and submission, dottiness, class distinction, tragedy and near-farce." "Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0571080111 Modern Fiction First Editions William Golding Leonard Rosoman England Modern Day life
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- Book number: 45939
- Book number: 45939
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