Iron Man (Children's Classics) by Ted Hughes

Iron Man (Children's Classics) by Ted Hughes

A clanking iron giant topples from a cliff and lies smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts begin to stir and reach out for one another. The Iron Man is ready to walk again, and he is very hungry . . . Ted Hughes's classic was first published in 1968 and has sold over a million copies since.

"'One of the greatest of modern fairytales' Observer 'Hughes has never written more compellingly.' The Times"

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

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ISBN 13	9780571207619
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Title	Iron Man (Children's Classics)
Author	Ted Hughes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2001-04-09
Number of pages	64
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