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Close Quarters by William Golding
Category: Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by Ronald Blythe. This is the second volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fete-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneat ...Show more
Close Quarters by William Golding
Category: Fiction
Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world.A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea ...Show more
DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Golding
Category: Fiction
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 s ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Golding
Category: Classic
The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Nicola Barker.A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.He is born in fire: a naked child in ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Golding
Category: Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by Philip Hensher. Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown ...Show more
Fire Down Below by William Golding
Category: Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. This is the third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. A 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 ...Show more
Fire Down Below by William Golding; Kate Mosse (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I think there has been death in my hands.On the last stretch of its epic voyage from England to Australia, a disintegrating warship inches toward ...Show more
Free Fall by William Golding
Category: Fiction
Question everything in this philosophical tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by John Gray.
Free Fall by William Golding
Category: Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by John Gray. Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerge ...Show more
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Category: Fiction | Series: FF Classics S.
Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.
Lord of the Flies by Sir William Golding
Category: Classics
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 a ...Show more