Moving Target

Moving Target

by William Golding
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/05/2013

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An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Golding's own writing and imagination. Includes Golding's Nobel Speech.


'Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful . . . His writing is a joy.' Sunday Times

ISBN:
9780571265473
9780571265473
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-05-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
William Golding

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford.

His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

He was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993.

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