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(0)William Golding
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad....
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
30 schoolboys lost on a tropical island after a plane crash revert to savagery in their efforts to survive.
5) The pyramid
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
[first American edition]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Harbrace Paperbound Library HPL volume 32
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and World
Pub. Date
c1956
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
10) The inheritors
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[©1955]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.
11) Darkness visible
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1979
Edition
First American edition
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
12) The spire
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) Free fall
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1970?], c1959
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Rites of passage
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
[Two-DVD special edition]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.