William Golding achieved international fame and wide critical acceptance with his first published novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954. Since that time he has produced six other distinguished novels (at...
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With the publication of Lord of the Files in 1954, William Golding was recognized as an important modern novelist. As an essayist he is less well known. Golding has shied away from publicity, and even...
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William Golding is an unusually controversial writer of the fantastic. First of all, his stature as a writer has been questioned despite--or possibly because of--the popular acceptance of his work. Se...
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The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in literature, William Golding (1911-1993)is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged after World War II.Golding's reputation rests pri...
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Once dubbed "Lord of the Campus" by Time magazine, Nobel Prize-winning British novelist William Golding spent an entire writing career living down his first novel, Lord of the Flies. A relative of Rob...
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Biography EssayWilliam Golding achieved international fame and wide critical acceptance with his first published novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954. Since that time his fictional canon has won Goldin...
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Born September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England, William Golding descended from a distinguished line of schoolmasters. His father, Alec, was a man of exceptional learning who wrote textbooks on diverse s...
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"Nothing can be more gentle than [man] in his primitive state." "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the author of nature." Through these quotes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, a nineteenth centu...
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"Man is not Savage at Heart."
William Golding said that "Man is a savage at heart." I on the other hand believe that humanity is more advanced than a mere savage. With proper guidance an individual u...
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William (Gerald) Golding
William Golding
William Golding
