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The Iron Man (FF Childrens Classics)

The Iron Man (FF Childrens Classics)

by Ted Hughes (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2001

    $3.57

  • Used

    Paperback 1974

    $3.41

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    Paperback 2005

    $9.30
Synopsis

Hughes's classic about a huge iron man who struggles to put himself together after being smashed to pieces falling from a cliff, and then takes on a giant dragon in an unfair contest. It was first published in 1968 and has sold over a million copies since.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 09 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0571207618
ISBN 13: 9780571207619
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
'One of the greatest of modern fairytales.' Observer 'Hughes has never written more compellingly.' The Times
Author Bio
Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe