Author
William Golding
2 award wins, 1 nomination across 2 books.
The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), which is consistently regarded as an effective and disturbing portrayal of the fragility of civilization.
Darkness Visible
272 pages
This extraordinary new novel, by the author of the now classic Lord of the Flies, is William Golding's best novel in twelve years. In Darkness Visible he has written a story of our times, a chilling mystery which never ceases to mystify. The martyr of disturbing suggestion, William Golding stirs up the sediment of dark thoughts and half ideas within us all. Many "Septimius" Windrave/Windrove- his exact name is unknown 0 as a boy steps out of the flaming known - as a boy steps out of the flaming destruction of the London blitz miraculously alive, but orphaned and hideously scarred for life.
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Rites of Passage
278 pages
During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat.
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