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William Golding


Born
in Newquay, Cornwall, England, The United Kingdom
September 19, 1911

Died
June 19, 1993

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Literature & Fiction

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Euripides, R.M. Ballantyne ...more


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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Average rating: 3.69 · 2,966,742 ratings · 59,649 reviews · 135 distinct works • Similar authors
Lord of the Flies
3.69 avg rating — 2,943,509 ratings — published 1954 — 825 editions
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The Inheritors
3.52 avg rating — 4,974 ratings — published 1955 — 138 editions
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Rites of Passage (To the En...
3.58 avg rating — 4,128 ratings — published 1980 — 86 editions
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The Spire
3.49 avg rating — 3,782 ratings — published 1964 — 116 editions
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Pincher Martin
3.56 avg rating — 2,387 ratings — published 1956 — 91 editions
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Darkness Visible
3.48 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 1979 — 66 editions
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Free Fall
3.66 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 1959 — 102 editions
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The Double Tongue
3.48 avg rating — 1,041 ratings — published 1995 — 47 editions
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The Pyramid
3.32 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 1967 — 57 editions
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The Paper Men
3.17 avg rating — 845 ratings — published 1984 — 53 editions
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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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July 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  50 votes, 22.3%

1945, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  28 votes, 12.5%

1951, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pages
 
  21 votes, 9.4%

1957, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 201 pages
 
  19 votes, 8.5%

 
  19 votes, 8.5%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.3%

1944, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.8%

 
  13 votes, 5.8%

1968, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 294 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.8%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.8%

1992, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, 352 pages
 
  12 votes, 5.4%

1938, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, 269 pages
 
  8 votes, 3.6%

1986, The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart, 80 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

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