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Encyclopedia: William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.

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James Badge Dale

James Badge Dale is an American actor and son of Anita Morris and Grover Dale. His most notable works to date are in the 1990 film Lord of the Flies based on the William Golding novel; and playing Chase Edmunds alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the third season of Fox TV series 24 (2003 - 2004...

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Poems (poetry by Golding)

Poems was the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for Lord of the Flies , among other novels). Released in 1934, a full 20 years before Flies (his second major work and first novel), he later derided it, but critics in retrospect called it "not bad...

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

. Some of the authors published by the firm are: T.S. Eliot Carlos Fuentes William Golding Hermann...

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Pincher Martin

Pincher Martin (1956) is the third novel by William Golding (author of Lord of the Flies). When it was originally published in the U.S., its title was changed to The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin , but later it was returned to its British name. It develops the themes introduced in Lord of the...

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Lord of the Flies (phrase)

This article is about the origins and meaning of the phrase. Lord of the Flies is the title of a novel by William Golding. Lord of the Flies is the English-language translation of the Hebrew word Baal-zevuv , which in turn is a deliberate corruption of the name of the Semitic god Beelzebub...

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The Inheritors

ineffectual. The Inheritors is also the title of a 1955 novel by the British author William Golding, better...

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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Defoe ( Robinson Crusoe ) and Voltaire ( Candide ), and more recently by William Golding ( Lord of the...

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1983 in literature

children's literature: Cynthia Voight, Dicey's Song Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding Prix... literature. Events Ironweed by William Kennedy is published. New Books The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers... - William Kennedy The Last Warrior Queen - Mary Mackey Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee The...

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Allegory

Serious Drinking William Golding's Lord of the Flies George Orwell Animal Farm Allegorical artworks...

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1980 in literature

, author December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (author) Awards Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of... 1940 - Mary Jayne Gold The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsyth The Fifth Horseman - Larry...

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