New Releases by William Golding

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. .

Efter ett flyghaveri kastas en grupp pojkar mellan sex och tolv år iland på en liten ö i Söderhavet. De stiftar lagar, fördelar sysslorna och väljer anförare. Deras tillvaro kan bli paradisisk med rik tillgång på god mat, sol och fullständig frihet från de vuxnas tvång. Men snart tar leken en annan vänding: skräcken kryper över pojkarna, rivaliteten växer mellan ledarna. Det som kunde varit ett spännande sommarlovsäventyr blir en furiös hetsjakt där fruktan och grymhet slår fram och vägen mot undergång ligger utstakad. Med förord av Gabriella Håkansson

Enable students to achieve their best grade in GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Lord of the Flies throughout the course. This Study and Revise guide: -Increases students'' knowledge of Lord of the Flies as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners -Develops understanding of plot, characterisation, themes and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual examples to enhance their exam responses -Builds critical and analytical skills through challenging, thought-provoking questions that encourage students to form their own personal responses to the text -Helps students maximise their exam potential using clear explanations of the Assessment Objectives, annotated sample student answers and tips for reaching the next grade -Improves students'' extended writing techniques through targeted advice on planning and structuring a successful essay -Provides opportunities for students to review their learning and identify their revision needs with knowledge-based questions at the end of each chapter.

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The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies . A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare. He is born in fire: a naked child in the blood-red flames of London''s Blitz. Miraculously saved but grotesquely burned, this mysterious orphan is named Matty. Doomed to a life of torment, he becomes a wanderer, a spiritual seeker after unknown redemption. They are also lost children: neglected twins, as exquisitely beautiful as they are loveless and sinful. Toni explores political terrorism; Sophy, sexual dominance and violent criminality. But their destinies will soon collide in an apocalyptic climax - one that illuminates the inner and outer darkness of modern humanity. ''Exceptional ... Irresistibly transcendent ... Golding seduces us. He transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.'' Nicola Barker ''Extraordinary ... A hallucinatory, incantatory force ... The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding''s novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth-century English novel.'' Philip Hensher ''A master craftsman in his particular sort of magic ... Golding''s best book ... Wonderfully creepy ... A remarkable achievement.'' London Review of Books ''A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes ... Magic.'' New York Times Book Review ''An intensity of vision without parallel.'' TLS ''One of the most moving books I''ve ever read.'' The Times ''Brilliantly spooky ... Written with great insight and a surprising humour, it is a thorough pleasure.'' Atlantic Monthly

Introduced by Annie Proulx, l ose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . . Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a ''hell of self-degradation'', it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself . . . ''It is the emotional veracity of life at sea that powers Golding''s exceptional writing ... The fury, mystery and challenge of life on board .'' Kate Mosse ''Golding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition.'' Ben Okri ''A master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.'' The Times ''Golding''s best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies .'' Melvyn Bragg ''An extraordinary novel.'' Observer To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book One

A first-hand journal about the Goldings'' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding''s vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of the living present, will delight his innumerable admirers and everyone who visits Egypt.''One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.'' Daily Telegraph''No previous book brings you so close to Golding the man. It bulges with abstruse knowledge . . . and is often screamingly funny . . . Hugely enjoyable.'' The Times

A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne.''A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man . . .It is highly individual yet profoundly modest; it has an unusual, slightly angular candour, full of painful knowledge and a beautiful humanity . . . event the slightest piece bears the mark of his rare, austere mind, his remarkable imagination . . . Even these occasional essays are enough to remind us that . . . there is not, at the moment, a writer to touch him.'' New Society

An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Golding''s own writing and imagination. Includes Golding''s Nobel Speech. ''Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful . . . His writing is a joy.'' Sunday Times

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Descriptor(s): WESTERNS | LITERARY TEXTS | LITERARY CRITICISM | LITERARY ANALYSIS | LITERARY STYLE | LITTERATEURS | BIOGRAPHIES | MODERN AGE | UNITED KINGDOM

The classic novel by William Golding With a new Introduction by Stephen King "To me Lord of the Flies has always represented what novels are for, what makes them indispensable." -Stephen King Golding''s classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature remains as provocative today as when it was first published. This beautiful new edition features French flaps and rough fronts, making it a must-have for fans of this seminal work. William Golding''s compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger''s The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

After plane crash, a few boys become drifted in a strange island. While they were surviving from the elements of this island, they made their own civilization with some rules. These boys thought, they could live better but their lives in the island become regressive because of their primeval and savage like minds. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Lord Of The Flies Is A Study On The Nature Of Evil And The Form In Which It Is Expressed In Modern Society. What Author Tries To Show In The Novel Is That Violence Is Built Into Our System, Into Our Genes And In Our Blood, And That Age Has Little To Do When The Innate Violence Would Erupt.

A Casebook Edition containing the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, plus notes and critical essays The material in this casebook edition of one of the most widely read novels of our time includes not only the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, but also statements by William Golding about the novel, reminisces of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E.M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of vierw. Included are psychological, religious, and literary approaches by noted scholars and studies of the novel''s relation to earlier works, as well as to other writings by Golding. The editors have also included bibliographical material and explanatory notes. Edited by James R. Baker and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr.

Excerpts from interviews, and reviews discuss the life and works of American authors from the early twentieth century to the present

The distinguished novelist discusses his literary career and portrays his impressions of Egypt, Greece, Holland, and England

Extreme physical deprivation and psychological isolation slowly erode the survival instincts of a sailor shipwrecked on a huge rock in the Atlantic.