William Golding

Some Critical Considerations

Jack I. Biles, Robert O. Evans, Jack I. Biles, Robert O. Evans

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780813151274
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813181868
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literarische Biographien

Jack I. Biles

WILLIAM GOLDING: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY has two major divisions: the first lists the works of William Golding, with reviews; the second lists criticism and commentary. Listing of Golding’s books is limited to initial English and American publication. The limitation for short works is to first publication, with the exception of the Leningrad speech, which is entered for both the original Italian publication (“Una Terribile Malattia”) and the English version.

Following is the organization of the bibliography:

WORKS BY WILLIAM GOLDING

I. Books and Parts of Books

II. Short Works

A. Short Fiction

B. Occasional Pieces

C. Book Reviews

D. British Broadcasting Corporation Programs

CRITICISM AND COMMENTARY

I. Bibliographical Sources

II. Biographical Sources

III. Books and Other Separate Publications

IV. Parts of Books

V. Theses and Dissertations

VI. Articles, Review-Articles, Interviews, Notes

VII. Letters to the Editor

VIII. British Broadcasting Corporation Programs

The success of Lord of the Flies has been spectacular. The novel has become familiar in many countries and has been published in numerous languages. As long ago as 18 April 1964, The Bookseller could report it in print in English, Norwegian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Swedish, and Italian; also noted were contracts for its translation into Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, and Polish. Entries in this bibliography indicate the availability of Lord of the Flies in still other languages and some translation of other Golding titles as well. These data suggest that a bibliography of all editions of Lord of the Flies and the other books may never be compiled, and to catalog more than a portion of the reviews and other criticism of the works seems impossible. I have tried, nevertheless, to be as comprehensive as was compatible with these restrictions: I have entered the items from the documents themselves or I have verified the bibliographical data from several sources. Items I know of from only one reference are marked by asterisks, and such entries have been minimized.

Reviews are of special importance in establishing critical reputation; reviews of an author’s books over a period of years provide an index to the response of readers and critics alike and afford a valuable adjunct to formal criticism. I have listed reviews immediately below each work. Reviews and comment concerning the motion picture version of Lord of the Flies, directed by Peter Brook, follow the reviews of the novel.

In addition to the checklists recorded in Section I of “Criticism and Commentary,” there are, of course, others in books about Golding; also, in newspaper stories, there are biographical items which amplify those in Section II. Those interviews with Golding published in periodicals are entered under the interviewer’s name in Section VI.

Titles of periodicals have been shortened; because of variations in their titles, I have regularized those of three periodicals: New Statesman, New York Herald Tribune Book Week, and Contemporary Literature.

Five special notations are used:

1. (THG) marks the twenty short pieces collected with a preface in The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces by William Golding (1965).

2. (NSB) marks the thirty-one “Articles on William Golding” collected with a preface and eleven “Related Readings” in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”: A Source Book by William Nelson (1963).

3. (CBE) marks the “Foreword,” “Introduction,” two interviews with Golding, and twelve critical items collected with the text of Lord of the Flies and a short checklist in the casebook edition by James R. Baker and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. (1964).

4. (OLF) marks the twelve reviews and articles collected in the study guide An Outline of “Lord of the Flies” by Frederick Jackson (1968).

5. (WGM) marks the six critical essays collected with an “Editor’s Comment” in “A William Golding Miscellany,” a special number of Studies in the Literary Imagination, by Jack I. Biles (1969).

Note: Parts of this bibliography appeared in a different form in Twentieth Century Literature and are reprinted with permission.

WORKS BY WILLIAM GOLDING

I. BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS

POEMS. London: Macmillan, 1934. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

LORD OF THE FLIES. London: Faber, 1954. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

REVIEWS:

Booklist, 15 September 1955, 26.

British Book News, November 1954, 636.

British Book News, October 1958, 697.

British Book News, November 1960, 831.

Kirkus Bulletin, 1 August 1955, 560.

Kirkus Bulletin, 1 September 1955, 659.

New Yorker, 15 October 1955, 189.

Reporter, 17 November 1955, 48.

Times (London), 18 September 1954, 9.

Times Literary Supplement, 22 October 1954, 669.

Allen, Walter. New Statesman, 25 September 1954, 370. (NSB) (OLF)

Allsop, Kenneth. Daily Mail (London), 27 June 1963.

Bennis, Warren G. Contemporary Psychology, June 1963, 231–32.

Cooperman, Stanley. Nation, 19 November 1955, 446.

F., B.P. Irish Times, 29 June 1963.

Fuller, Edmund. Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books, 9 September 1962, 6.

Garlington, Jack. Western Humanities Review, 14 (Spring 1960), 233–34.

Halle, Louis J. Saturday Review, 15 October 1955, 16. (NSB) (OLF)

Hewitt, Douglas. Manchester Guardian, 28 September 1954, 4. (NSB) (OLF)

Hughes, Riley. Catholic World, December 1955, 230.

Metcalf, John, Spectator, 1 October 1954, 418–22.

Moon, Eric. Library Journal, 1 October 1962, 3466–67.

Moore, Reginald. Time and Tide, 18 September 1954, 1241–42.

Moran, John. Library Journal, 1 September 1955, 1815.

Painter, George D. Listener, 21 October 1954, 687.

Stern, James. New York Times Book Review, 23 October 1955, 38. (NSB) (OLF)

Walker, Peregrine. Tablet, 2 October 1954, 328.

Wickenden, Dan. New York Hera...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• David Anderson
• Ted E. Boyle
• Philippa Tristram
• Peter Wolfe
• Jeanne Delbaere-Garant
• Robert O. Evans
• Arnold Johnston
• Jay L. Halio
• E. C. Bufkin
• Richard S. Cammarota
• David Skilton
• Leighton Hodson
• Maurice L. McCullen
• Jack I. Biles
• Contributors