William Golding
Author
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....
Author
Series
Harbrace Paperbound Library HPL volume 32
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and World
Pub. Date
[1956]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
5) The pyramid
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1967.
Edition
[first American edition].
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
7) Free fall
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1970?]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
8) The spire
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
215 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) Fire down below
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
12) A moving target
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1982.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) 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.