William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding 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. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”
Повелитель мух
William Golding
Самый знаменитый роман У.Голдинга "Повелитель мух", отвергнутый первоначально 21 издателем, был опубликован в 1954 г. и сразу стал бестселлером. С тех пор это произведение выдержало сотни переизданий по всему миру и множество раз ставилось на театральной сцене. В 1962 г. роман был экранизирован выдающимся английским режиссёром Питером Бруком.
Close Quarters (To the Ends of the Earth, #2)
William Golding
William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. "A stunning piece of writing as exciting as any thriller." - Frank Muir. Sunday Times. (from front cover)
The Spire
William Golding
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.
From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.
Fire Down Below (To the Ends of the Earth, #3)
William Golding
The third volume of william goldings acclaimed sea trilogya 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 nothing but rope holds the disintegrating hull together and after a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks
Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
William Golding
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, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.
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