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.”

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate. At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.

Un aereo cade su un'isola deserta mentre è in corso un conflitto planetario. Sopravvivono solo alcuni ragazzi che si mettono subito all'opera per riorganizzarsi senza l'aiuto ed il controllo degli adulti. Sembra il prologo ideale per un romanzo d'avventura che celebri il pragmatismo e il senso della democrazia britannici. Qualcosa invece comincia a non funzionare come dovrebbe, emergono paure irrazionali e comportamenti asociali, da cui si sviluppa una vicenda che metterà a nudo gli aspetti più selvaggi e repressi della natura umana.

Publicado originalmente em 1954, 'Senhor das Moscas' é um dos romances essenciais da literatura mundial. Adaptado duas vezes para o cinema, traduzido para 35 idiomas, o clássico de William Golding - que já foi visto como uma alegoria, uma parábola, um tratado político e mesmo uma visão do apocalipse - vendeu, só em língua inglesa, mais de 25 milhões de exemplares. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um avião cai numa ilha deserta, e seus únicos sobreviventes são um grupo de meninos em idade escolar. Eles descobrem os encantos desse refúgio tropical e, liderados por Ralph, procuram se organizar enquanto esperam um possível resgate. Mas aos poucos - e por seus próprios desígnios - esses garotos aparentemente inocentes transformam a ilha numa visceral disputa pelo poder, e sua selvageria rasga a fina superfície da civilidade, que mantinham como uma lembrança remota da vida em sociedade. Ao narrar a história de meninos perdidos numa ilha paradisíaca, aos poucos se deixando levar pela barbárie, Golding constrói uma história eletrizante, ao mesmo tempo uma reflexão sobre a natureza do mal e a tênue linha entre o poder e a violência desmedida. A nova tradução para o português mostra como Senhor das Moscas mantém o mesmo impacto desde o seu lançamento - um clássico moderno; um livro que retrata de maneira inigualável as áreas de sombra e escuridão da essência do ser humano.

The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts embody, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian with a wicked sense of humor, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel, left in draft at the author's death in 1993, is a psychological and historical triumph. Golding has created a vivid and comic picture of ancient Greek society as well as an absolutely convincing portrait of a woman's experience, something rare in the Golding oeuvre. Arieka the Pythia is one of his finest creations. Left in draft at the author's death in 1993, this extraordinary short novel is a psychological and historical triumph. An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the voice of the god Apollo. Golding was the author of Lord of the Flies, and a Nobel Laureate.

Fábula moral acerca de la condición humana, EL SEÑOR DE LAS MOSCAS es además un prodigioso relato literario susceptible de lecturas diversas y aun opuestas. Si para unos la parábola que WILLIAM GOLDING estructura en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos solos en una isla desierta representa una ilustración de las tesis que sitúan la agresividad criminal entre los instintos básicos del hombre, para otros constituye una requisitoria moral contra una educación represiva que no hace sino preparar futuras explosiones de barbarie cuando los controles se relajan.

Jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści o upadku kultury i cywilizacji, która weszła na stałe do kanonu najważniejszych dzieł XX wieku. Grupa chłopców, którzy jako jedyni ocaleli po katastrofie lotniczej, znajduje schronienie na bezludnej wyspie. Początkowo rozbitkowie, pozbawieni nadzoru dorosłych, cieszą się wolnością w rajskiej scenerii z dala od cywilizacji. Jednak ich wysiłki, by stworzyć własne małe społeczeństwo, prowadzą do katastrofy, a przygoda obraca się w koszmar. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla William Golding rozwiewa złudzenia o dobrej naturze człowieka, pokazując w sugestywny i przerażający sposób, jak zwykli uczniowie brytyjskich szkół stopniowo pogrążają się w barbarzyństwie i zatracają swoje ludzkie odruchy.

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would, know, was that the day of their people was already over. From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors is a startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginning of a new age.

Publicado originalmente em 1954, O Deus das Moscas de William Golding é um dos mais perturbadores e aclamados romances da actualidade. Um avião despenha-se numa ilha deserta, e os únicos sobreviventes são um grupo de rapazes. Inicialmente, desfrutando da liberdade total e festejando a ausência de adultos, unem forças, cooperando na procura de alimentos, na construção de abrigos e na manutenção de sinais de fogo. A supervisioná-los está Ralph, um jovem ponderado, e o seu amigo gorducho e esperto, Piggy. Apesar de Ralph tentar impor a ordem e delegar responsabilidades, muitos dos rapazes preferem celebrar a ausência de adultos nadando, brincando ou caçando a grande população de porcos selvagens que habita a ilha. O mais feroz adversário de Ralph é Jack, o líder dos caçadores, que consegue arrastar consigo a maioria dos rapazes. No entanto, à medida que o tempo passa, o frágil sentido de ordem desmorona-se. Os seus medos alcançam um significado sinistro e primitivo, até Ralph descobrir que ele e Piggy se tornaram nos alvos de caça dos restantes rapazes, embriagados pela sensação aparente de poder.