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William Golding

Born

in St. Columb Minor, Cornwall

September 19, 1911

Died

June 19, 1993

Website

http://www.william-golding.co.uk/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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People note British writer Sir William Gerald Golding for his dark novels, especially The Lord of the Flies (1954); he won the Nobel Prize of 1983 for literature.

People best know this British novelist, poet, and playwright for this novel. Golding spent two years, focusing on sciences, in Oxford but changed his educational emphasis to English, especially Anglo-Saxon, literature.

During World War II, he served as part of the royal Navy, which he left five years later. This experience strongly influenced his future novels. Later, he taught and focused on writing. Classical Greek literature, such as that of Euripides, and The Battle of Maldon , an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre of unknown author influenced him.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 2,853,939 ratings · 55,921 reviews · 129 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lord of the Flies 3.69 avg rating — 2,830,570 ratings — published 1954 — 804 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inheritors 3.52 avg rating — 4,753 ratings — published 1955 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 4,009 ratings — published 1980 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spire 3.50 avg rating — 3,605 ratings — published 1964 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pincher Martin 3.56 avg rating — 2,317 ratings — published 1956 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Visible 3.48 avg rating — 1,529 ratings — published 1979 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Fall 3.65 avg rating — 1,287 ratings — published 1959 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Double Tongue 3.48 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 1995 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pyramid 3.32 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paper Men 3.17 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 1984 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by William Golding (?)

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

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June 2014 Contemporary Classic -

Which book would you like to read for our June 2014 Contemporary Classic Group Read?

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

64 votes, 23.7%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

39 votes, 14.4%

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

35 votes, 13.0%

Watership Down by Richard Adams

26 votes, 9.6%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

16 votes, 5.9%

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

14 votes, 5.2%

The Collector by John Fowles

12 votes, 4.4%

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

10 votes, 3.7%

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

10 votes, 3.7%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

8 votes, 3.0%

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

8 votes, 3.0%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

8 votes, 3.0%

The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

5 votes, 1.9%

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

5 votes, 1.9%

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

4 votes, 1.5%

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

3 votes, 1.1%

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

3 votes, 1.1%

270 total votes

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