“william golding”

"Golding's...prose is forceful and compact. He tells a rousing good story. Yet his technical virtuosity, his use of image and symbol, among other literary devices, with as many philosophical implications involved as one wishes to work over--these are what account for his reputation...However, as a s... More

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship, where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the crammed s... More

"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slid... More