William Golding: 19 books
by William Golding
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other...
Lord of the Flies (Herr der Fliegen) von William Golding.
Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben mit Lösungen
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Königs Erläuterungen – Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben In einem Band bieten dir die neuen Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur oder Matura benötigst. Das spart Zeit bei der Vorbereitung! Alle wichtigen...
Lord of the Flies
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry
As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate...
Close Quarters
With an introduction by Ronald Blythe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The second volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy
In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fête-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over...
by William Golding
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the...
Rites of Passage
With an introduction by Robert McCrum
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.
Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers,...
The Double Tongue
With an introduction by Meg Rosoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she...
Fire Down Below
With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy
A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Little but rope holds the disintegrating hull together. And after a risky operation to reset its foremast, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks.
by William Golding, Lois Lowry, Jennifer Buehler
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1959
**Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
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This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
At the dawn of the...
Darkness Visible
With an introduction by Philip Hensher
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown...
by William Golding
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne.
'A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man . . .It is highly individual...
The Scorpion God
With an introduction by Craig Raine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The three short novels in this collection, The Scorpion God, show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. In 'The Scorpion God' we see the world of ancient Egypt at the time of the earliest Pharaohs. 'Clonk Clonk' is a graphic account of a crippled youth's triumph over his tormentors in...
by William Golding
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the...
The Spire
With an introduction by John Mullan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
'...the folly isn't mine. It's God's Folly. Even in the old days He never asked men to do what was reasonable. Men can do that for themselves. They can buy and sell, heal and govern. But then out of some deep place comes the command to do what makes no sense at all - to build a ship on dry land; to...
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