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William Golding
Author
Language
English
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Description
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
8) The spire
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
The dean builds his cathedral spire higher and higher--an impossibility in stone--and, as it rises, its shadow falls darkly on the world below.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane that is evacuating them from a war-threatened England crashlands. Without adult control, the boys regress to savagery.