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William Golding

* September 19, 1911 in United Kingdom - † June 19, 1993 in United Kingdom
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A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of …

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Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by British author William Golding. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The title comes from Paradise Lost, from the line, "No light, but rather darkness visible". The novel narrates a struggle between good and evil, using naïveté, sexuality and spirituality throughout. It …

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Dědicové je druhý román držitele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu, anglického spisovatele Williama Goldinga. Vypráví o setkání dvou tlup odlišných druhů člověka v době zhruba před 50 000 lety, které skončí pro méně vyvinuté neandrtálce katastroficky. Podobně jako Pánem much polemizuje Golding s Korálovým ostrovem R. M. …

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The Double Tongue is a novel by William Golding. It was found in draft form after his death and published posthumously. Golding's final novel tells the story of the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi. Arieka prophesies in the shadowy years of the 1st century BC when the Romans were securing their grip on the …

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Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959. Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War Two.