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It was out of print when it was discovered by American college youth, who sent paperback sales to 2,000,000 and emancipated Golding from any more schoolmastering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reason : "Then if I fizzle out as a writer, I shall be qualified to turn my hand to something else�possibly schoolmastering."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting�all passed in review, until the canon blew up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Believe it or not, he did have children�as he swears on his deathbed, "thousands of them"�and schoolmastering at Brookfield was no mean way to spend a life.

From Time Magazine Archive

At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson