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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Rites of Passage

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition

William Golding

William Golding

Cliffsnotes on Golding's Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Darkness Visible

William Golding

William Golding

Fire Down Below

William Golding

William Golding

The Double Tongue

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

The Scorpion God

William Golding

To the Ends of the Earth

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

William Golding

An Egyptian Journal

William Golding

Critical Perspective

William Golding

Biography

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.

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