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Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.
After the war ended and Golding returned to England, the world was dominated by Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation, which led Golding to examine the nature of humanity and went on to inspire Lord of the Flies. [5] Lord of the Flies was rejected by many publishers before being accepted by Faber & Faber. An initial rejection labelled ...
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by British author William Golding. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [2] The title comes from Paradise Lost, from the line, "No light, but rather darkness visible". [3] The novel narrates a struggle between good and evil, using naïveté, sexuality and spirituality throughout.
Don Crompton, in A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels, analyses the novel and relates it to its pagan and mythical elements. More recently, Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor cover all of William Golding's novels in William Golding: A Critical Study of the Novels.
Pincher Martin (published in America as Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin) is a novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956.It is Golding's third novel, following The Inheritors and his debut Lord of the Flies.