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Golding’s original version of Lord of the Flies began not on the island, but by describing a nuclear war with no main characters. Next, the action moved onto a plane that participates in an air battle and eventually releases a “passenger tube” full of students that floats down to the tropical island. The first draft closed its story with an ominous cataloguing of the story’s time and date: “16.00, 2nd October 1952.”
2. NOBODY WANTED TO PUBLISH LORD OF THE FLIES.
Since it was Golding’s first book, Lord of the Flies was met with little interest from the multitudes of publishing companies to whom he sent his manuscript. Golding’s daughter Judy Carver remembered her cash-strapped father struggling with many rejection letters. “My earliest memory is not of the book itself but of a lot of parcels coming back and being sent off again very quickly,” she told The Guardian. “He must have been grief-stricken every time it returned. Even paying for the postage was a commitment.”
3. THE EVENTUAL PUBLISHER OF LORD OF THE FLIES TRIED TO HIDE IT FROM T.S. ELIOT.
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11 Things You Might Not Know About <em>Lord of the Flies</em>
2. NOBODY WANTED TO PUBLISH LORD OF THE FLIES.
Since it was Golding’s first book, Lord of the Flies was met with little interest from the multitudes of publishing companies to whom he sent his manuscript. Golding’s daughter Judy Carver remembered her cash-strapped father struggling with many rejection letters. “My earliest memory is not of the book itself but of a lot of parcels coming back and being sent off again very quickly,” she told The Guardian. “He must have been grief-stricken every time it returned. Even paying for the postage was a commitment.”
3. THE EVENTUAL PUBLISHER OF LORD OF THE FLIES TRIED TO HIDE IT FROM T.S. ELIOT.
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11 Things You Might Not Know About <em>Lord of the Flies</em>
