William Golding
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece.
3) The spire
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1992], ©1946
Language
English
Description
The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down his collapsing faith.
Author
Series
Sea trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
The final book in a classic series that began with the Man Booker Prize-winning Rites of Passage. To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents 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 measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adventure tale based on the classic novel by William Golding. When an aircraft carrying a group of military school cadets is forced to crash land in an uninhabited Pacific jungle, it is survival of the fittest, man against nature, and boy against boy as sides are drawn when the hunters become the hunted.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
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...