![]() Against the reluctance of his seniors, young Monteith stubbornly, and heroically, persisted: it was lucky for him that the author, an unknown provincial schoolmaster named William Golding, proved editorially cooperative. Crawley, whose verdict was regarded as infallible, pronounced the submission, then titled Strangers from Within, as quite unpublishable.Īt this point the dog-eared manuscript would have been dispatched on its travels again had it not been for a new editorial recruit to the firm named Charles Monteith, who saw its superficial flaws but, as he read on, was increasingly gripped by its fearfully vivid narrative, moral intensity, and merciless verdict on mankind. Pointless.” Not only she, but, more to the point, Faber’s sales director W.J. A group of children who land in jungle-country near New Guinea. ![]() Absurd & uninteresting fantasy about the explosion of an atom bomb on the Colonies. Her brief report, in green ink on the covering letter, was witheringly dismissive: “Time: the Future. It was turned over to the professional reader, one Polly Perkins, who initially vetted the flow of fiction submissions not only for Faber but also for other publishers, as well as for a leading literary agency. In 1953, more than half a century ago, a grubby, dog-eared manuscript that had made the rounds (and of which only the first twenty or so pages had received serious attention) arrived at the office of Faber & Faber, the most distinguished literary publisher in London. ![]() ![]() T he publishing history of Lord of the Flies reads like a fairy tale. ![]()
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