Darkness Visible(1st Edition) A Novel (FSG Classics) by SirWilliamGolding, A.S. Byatt Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53051-8, ISBN: 0-374-53051-3
"A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" ("The New York Times Book Review"). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lig ..."
"Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose ..."
The Inheritors by SirWilliamGolding Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-163-81723-0, ISBN: 1-163-81723-6
"This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work."
Free Fall by SirWilliamGolding Hardcover, 258 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-31051-3, ISBN: 0-544-31051-9
""I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Sw ..."
W.H. Auden (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Prof. Harold Bloom, SirWilliamGolding Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1986 by Infobase Publishing (Facts On File/Chelsea House) ISBN-13: 978-0-87754-640-5, ISBN: 0-87754-640-1
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Cynthia Ozick(1st Edition) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by SirWilliamGolding, Harold Bloom Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 1986 by Infobase Publishing (Facts On File/Chelsea House) ISBN-13: 978-0-87754-713-6, ISBN: 0-87754-713-0
"A gathering of a representative selection of the best contemporary criticism of the poets,novelists,essayists, and playwrights of the Western world who are most widely studied and read."
"Romanticism and Consciousness is a comprehensive collection of essays on Romanticism - its intellectual and political backgrounds, its place in literary history, its continued relevance to the present age, its relation to psychoanalysis and other modern trends of thought - and on the major English Romantic poets. The topics covered include the relations between nature and consciousness, nature and revolution, and nature and literary fo ..."
"Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose ..."
Lord Of The Flies (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by SirWilliamGolding Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1959 by - ISBN-13: 978-0-88103-031-0, ISBN: 0-88103-031-7
"Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose ..."
"William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned o ..."
"The classic novel by William GoldingWith a new Introduction by Stephen King"To me "Lord of the Flies" has always represented what novels are for, what makes them indispensable." -Stephen KingGolding's classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature remains as provocative today as when it was first published. This beautiful new edition features French flaps and rough fronts, making it a must-have for fans of this ..."
The Inheritors (Kessinger Legacy Reprints) by SirWilliamGolding Hardcover, 234 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-166-12812-8, ISBN: 1-166-12812-1
"This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work."
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Free Fall by SirWilliamGolding Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-15-602823-3, ISBN: 0-15-602823-9
""I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free FallSammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swe ..."
"The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down his collapsing faith. Meanwhile, the towering spire casts a shadow of dread on all those who behold it."
Rites of Passage(1st Edition) A Novel (To the Ends of the Earth) by SirWilliamGolding, Cover Art Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52640-5, ISBN: 0-374-52640-0
"Winner of the 1980 Booker PrizeSailing 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, sinking 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 sailor ..."
The Paper Men by SirWilliamGolding Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52639-9, ISBN: 0-374-52639-7
"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 paper ..."
The Double Tongue(1st Edition) by SirWilliamGolding Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52637-5, ISBN: 0-374-52637-0
""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 ..."
"William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacle ..."