Best Selling Books by William Golding

William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding’s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of the indisputable classics of the twentieth century for readers of any age. This Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition features an array of special features to supplement the novel, including a foreword by Lois Lowry, an introduction by Stephen King, an essay by E. M. Forster, an essay on teaching and reading the novel and suggestions for further exploration by scholar Jennifer Buehler, and an extended note by E. L. Epstein, the publisher of the first American paperback edition of Lord of the Flies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This comedy deals with an inventor-genius of Roman times whose fate it is to discover things at the wrong moment.

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.

Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather chart. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece

Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize 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, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo''castle something happens to bring him into a "hell of degradation," where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself. William Golding''s To the Ends of the Earth trilogy is now a BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. To the Ends of the Earth: 1. Rites of Passage 2. Close Quarters 3. Fire Down Below

"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

Simplified Chinese edition of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by the 1983 Nobel prize winner William Golding about a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a primitive society on an uninhabited island.

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.

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

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.

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

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