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When William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Foundation said of his novels that they ‘illuminate the human condition in the world of today’. Born in Cornwall in 1911, Golding was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor, a musician and a schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, submarines and aircraft, and also took part in the pursuit of the
Bismarck
.

Lord of the Flies
, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers and one literary agent. It was rescued from the ‘slush pile’ by a young editor at Faber and Faber and published in 1954. The book would go on to sell several million copies; it was translated into 35 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. He wrote eleven other novels,
The Inheritors
and
The Spire
among them, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for his novel
Rites of Passage
in 1980, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.

www.william-golding.co.uk

 

Books by
Sir William Golding
1911–1993
Nobel Prize in Literature

 

Fiction

LORD OF THE FLIES

THE INHERITORS

PINCHER MARTIN

FREE FALL

THE SPIRE

THE PYRAMID

THE SCORPION GOD

DARKNESS VISIBLE

THE PAPER MEN

RITES OF PASSAGE

CLOSE QUARTERS

FIRE DOWN BELOW

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

(comprising
Rites of Passage
,
Close Quarters
and
Fire Down Below
in a revised text; foreword by the author)

THE DOUBLE TONGUE

 

Essays

THE HOT GATES

A MOVING TARGET

 

Travel

AN EGYPTIAN JOURNAL

 

Plays

THE BRASS BUTTERFLY

LORD OF THE FLIES

adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams

 

WILLIAM GOLDING: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS

by Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor

This ebook edition published in 2013
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
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All rights reserved
Foreword and text revisions throughout © William Golding, 1991
Rites of Passage
© William Golding, 1980
Close Quarters
© William Golding, 1987
Fire Down Below
© William Golding, 1989

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