Best Selling Books by William Golding

Commissioned by the leading actor Alastair Sim (1900-1976) The Brass Butterfly was Golding''s only original stage play. Starring Sim himself, and also the popular actor George Cole, it opened for a provincial pre-West End run in Oxford in early 1958 and premiered at the Strand Theatre in London in April. In his biography of Golding, John Carey describes it as ''a comic scherzo'' dealing with the conflict between science and religion, transposed to the Greco-Roman world of antiquity.

Oliver is 18, and wants to enjoy himself before he goes to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in a small country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is up to, and where love and lust are closely followed by revenge.

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 Talbolt''s journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding''s finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major three-part Mastpiece Theatre drama in 2006.

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey and shoots, bulbs and grubs, the hot richness of a deer''s brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening - inexplicable scents, sounds, and violence - and, suddenly, unimaginable creatures are half-glimpsed in the forest; an upright new people of bone-faces and deerskins. What the early people don''t know is that their season is already over ...

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

"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere"--Page 4 of cover.

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

Sequel to R̀ites of spring'' and C̀lose quarters'' the final volume in the author''s sea trilogy.

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

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.

Tre korte romaner med motiv fra fortiden

The Nobel Prizewinner''s last novel, left in draft form at his death in 1993.

Dagboek van een jonge Engelsman die een rampzalige zeereis maakt naar Australië in de vroege 19e eeuw.

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.