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William Golding

Born

in Newquay, Cornwall, England, The United Kingdom

September 19, 1911

Died

June 19, 1993

Website

https://william-golding.co.uk/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ...more

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	Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,071,587 ratings — published 1954 — 828 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 3.51 avg rating — 5,282 ratings — published 1955 — 140 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 — 4,300 ratings — published 1980 — 86 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 — 3,997 ratings — published 1964 — 119 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 — 2,496 ratings — published 1956 — 93 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 3.51 avg rating — 1,749 ratings — published 1979 — 69 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 3.67 avg rating — 1,410 ratings — published 1959 — 103 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 3.47 avg rating — 1,102 ratings — published 1995 — 47 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 — 1,044 ratings — published 1967 — 58 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 3.15 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 1984 — 54 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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“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, 23.9%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

38 votes, 14.2%

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

35 votes, 13.1%

Watership Down by Richard Adams

26 votes, 9.7%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

16 votes, 6.0%

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

14 votes, 5.2%

The Collector by John Fowles

11 votes, 4.1%

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%

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