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Well there it is. I cannot do your homework for you; and it is in some ways a melancholy thought that I have become a school textbook before I am properly dead and buried. To go on being a schoolmaster so that I should have time to write novels was a tactic I employed in the struggle of life. But life, clever life, has got back at me. My first novel ensured that I should be treated for the rest of my days as a schoolmaster only given a longer tether ...
William Golding, 'Fable', The Hot Gates (London: Faber, 1965), page 101.
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Golding’s essay ‘Fable’ has been republished in the new 2004 Educational Edition of Lord of the Flies, published by Faber & Faber, pp. 249-71. ISBN 1-4039-0476-6. This edition has an introduction and student notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes. Golding’s essay records his thoughts (from a lecture given at UCLA) on history, politics and Lord of the Flies as both a novel and a fable.
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