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William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was ... In History In History is a series which uses the BBC's unique audio and video archive to explore historical events that still resonate today.
Author William Golding said: "I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give ...
Sir William Gerald Golding (1911–1993) was a Nobel Prize-winning writer best known for his 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, about a group of British schoolboys who become marooned on an isolated ...
Does anyone read William Golding anymore? Although his first novel, "Lord of the Flies," endures in the secondary-school curriculum, what about "The Inheritors," "Pincher Martin," "Darkness ...
William Golding's literary career culminated in the early 1980s with a Booker Prize http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive/14 for his seafaring drama "Rites ...
It may not be a surprise to learn that the British novelist William Golding, whose “Lord of the Flies” (1954) supplanted “The Catcher in the Rye” as the bible of tortured adolescence in ...
In the late 1960s, some 15 years after the publication of “Lord of the Flies,” William Golding confessed to a friend that he resented the novel because it meant that he owed his reputation to ...