William Golding
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".
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When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would, know, was that the day of their people was already over.From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors is a startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginning of a new age.
The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.
The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin’s will to live as the sum total of his life.
A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.
"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free FallSammy 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 emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.
The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts embody, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian with a wicked sense of humor, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel, left in draft at the author's death in 1993, is a psychological and historical triumph. Golding has created a vivid and comic picture of ancient Greek society as well as an absolutely convincing portrait of a woman's experience, something rare in the Golding oeuvre. Arieka the Pythia is one of his finest creations.Left in draft at the author's death in 1993, this extraordinary short novel is a psychological and historical triumph. An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the voice of the god Apollo. Golding was the author of Lord of the Flies, and a Nobel Laureate.
Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is Golding's funniest and most light-hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, and all the tragedy and farce of life in a small community
English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.
William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. "A stunning piece of writing as exciting as any thriller." - Frank Muir. Sunday Times. (from front cover)
Three short novels show Golding at his subtle, ironic, mysterious best. The Scorpion God depicts a challenge to primal authority as the god-ruler of an ancient civilization lingers near death. Clonk Clonk is a graphic account of a crippled youth's triumph over his tormentors in a primitive matriarchal society. Envoy Extraordinary is a tale of Imperial Rome where the emperor loves his illegitimate son more than his own arrogant, loutish heir.
The third volume of william goldings acclaimed sea trilogya 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 hull together and after a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks
To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's classic sea trilogy, tells the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbot's journal - with equal measures of wit and disdain - it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major three-part BBC drama in 2005.
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William Goldingi kaks erinevasse loomeperioodi kuuluvat roomani. Mõlema romaani tegevus toimub välisest maailmast eraldatud ühiskonnas - esimeses troopilisel saarel, kuhu satub grupp inglise koolipoisse, teises Inglismaalt Austraaliasse suunduvas laevas -, mis võimaldab autoril lähemalt vaadelda inimloomuse varjatumaid tahke.
Each of the three tales of imagination in this book is by a master of the art, and in each there is incident and invention enough to surpass most full-length novels.'Envoy Extraordinary' by William Golding Tells of a barbarian genius who arrives in ancient Rome with three inventions—and the results are appalling. "Consider Her Ways' by John Wyndham Presents a shocking and utterly convincing picture of a world of women—without men.'Boy in Darkness' by Mervyn Peake Is a venture into a dream-like world of strangeness and terror—quite unlike anything you have ever read, and unforgettable.
A personal diary of the author's recent trip up the Nile describes the everyday life of the Egyptians and connects it with their ancient past
Three novels by William Golding in one Lord of the Flies Pincher Martin Rites of Passage
Commissioned by the leading actor Alastair Sim (1900-1976) The Brass Butterfly was Golding's only original stage play. Starring Sim himself, and also the popular actor George Cole, it opened for a provincial pre-West End run in Oxford in early 1958 and premiered at the Strand Theatre in London in April. In his biography of Golding, John Carey describes it as 'a comic scherzo' dealing with the conflict between science and religion, transposed to the Greco-Roman world of antiquity.
A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983.The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".
Перед вами - ЖЕМЧУЖИНЫ творческого наследия Уильяма Голдинга."Повелитель мух". Гротескная антиутопия, "черная робинзонада" - и роман-предупреждение..."Шпиль". Исторический роман - и философская притча, исследующая мельчайшие и темнейшие лабиринты души, одержимой "жаждой созидания"..."Чрезвычайный посол". Тонкая, изысканная, по-голдинговски ироничная "повесть-шутка", заставляющая РАЗМЫШЛЯТЬ...Читайте - и перечитывайте снова, снова и снова...Содержание Повелитель мух (переводчик: Елена Суриц)Шпиль (переводчик: Виктор Хинкис)Чрезвычайный посол (переводчик: Юрий Здоровов)
Jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści o upadku kultury i cywilizacji, która weszła na stałe do kanonu najważniejszych dzieł XX wieku Grupa chłopców, którzy jako jedyni ocaleli po katastrofie lotniczej, znajduje schronienie na bezludnej wyspie. Początkowo rozbitkowie, pozbawieni nadzoru dorosłych, cieszą się wolnością w rajskiej scenerii z dala od cywilizacji. Jednak ich wysiłki, by stworzyć własne małe społeczeństwo, prowadzą do katastrofy, a przygoda obraca się w koszmar. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla William Golding rozwiewa złudzenia o dobrej naturze człowieka, pokazując w sugestywny i przerażający sposób, jak zwykli uczniowie brytyjskich szkół stopniowo pogrążają się w barbarzyństwie i zatracają swoje ludzkie odruchy. Tytuł Lord of the Flies Tł Wacław Niepokólczycki
«Ճանճերի տերը» համաշխարհային ճանաչում է գտել որպես անգլիացի արդի խոշորագույն արձակագրի լավագույն ստեղծագործությունը։ Առաջին հայացքից «անմարդաբնակ կղզի» թեմայի հերթական տարբերակ թվացող այս պատմությունը հեղինակի փիլիսոփայական ընդհանրացման ձիրքի շնորհիվ դառնում է որոշակի հանգամանքներում մարդկային քաղաքակրթության այլասերման և կործանման սթափ զգուշացում։Բնության տարերքի դեմ մարդկային կամքի աննկուն պայքարի, ցանկացած պայմաններում հույսը չկորցնելու, հումանիզմի շնչով է գրված «Քրիսթըֆըր Մարթինի երկու մահը» վիպակը։
Publicado em 1954, Senhor das Moscas vendeu milhões de cópias, foi traduzido para mais de quarenta idiomas e adaptado em dois filmes de sucesso. Agora em quadrinhos, a obra clássica, moderna e atemporal ganha vida nas ilustrações de Aimée de Jongh, uma das artistas mais aclamadas da atualidade. “Nós somos o quê? Humanos? Ou animais?” Um avião cai em uma ilha deserta e os únicos sobreviventes são um grupo de meninos em idade escolar. Durante o dia, eles exploram as praias exuberantes e aproveitam as brincadeiras sem a supervisão de nenhum adulto. À noite, são assombrados por pesadelos com um monstro assustador e tudo o que perderam. Órfãos de qualquer civilização que os ampare, eles precisam se organizar e criar as próprias regras, mas não demora até que o grupo se divida e as brincadeiras, antes inocentes, tomem um rumo sombrio. Romance fundamental da literatura contemporânea e precursor de distopias como Jogos vorazes , Battle Royale e A dança da morte , a graphic novel de Senhor das Moscas é uma releitura magnífica do clássico de William Golding pelo talento de Aimée de Jongh, que traz um novo olhar às paisagens bucólicas e violentas da ilha.
От издателя:В томе представлены наиболее известные произведения классиков английской литературы XX века Уильяма Голдинга и Айрис Мердок.Содержание: Александр Чамеев. Два мастера английской интеллектуальной прозы (Предисловие)Уильям Голдинг. Повелитель мух (переводчик: Елена Суриц)Уильям Голдинг. Чрезвычайный посол (переводчик: Юрий Здоровов)Айрис Мердок. Черный принц (переводчики: Инна Бернштейн, Александра Поливанова)Александр Чамеев. Примечания
Three novels by the author of "Lord of the Flies", including "Pincher Martin", "Free Fall", and "The Inheritors".
