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About this book
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury.
Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including
The Inheritors,
Pincher Martin and
The Spire. He won the Booker Prize for
Rites of Passage in 1980, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993.
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English Literary CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note on Sources
- 1: Beginning
- 2: Grandparents
- 3: Parents
- 4: The House
- 5: Childhood
- 6: Growing Up
- 7: Oxford
- 8: Drifting
- 9: The War
- 10: Teaching
- 11: Unpublished Novelist
- 12: Breakthrough
- 13: The Inheritors
- 14: Pincher Martin
- 15: The Brass Butterfly
- 16: Free Fall
- 17: Journalism and Difficulties with The Spire
- 18: America
- 19: The Spire
- 20: The Hot Gates and The Pyramid
- 21: Disaster
- 22: âThe Jamâ and a Breakdown
- 23: The Scorpion God and âHistory Of A Crisisâ
- 24: Gap Years
- 25: Darkness Visible
- 26: Rites of Passage
- 27: A Moving Target and The Paper Men
- 28: The Nobel Prize and An Egyptian Journal
- 29: A Move and Close Quarters
- 30: Fire Down Below and Globe-Trotting
- 31: The Double Tongue
- Postscript
- AUTHORâS NOTE TO PAPERBACK EDITION What Happened to Mollie?
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Appendix
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright