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William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive...

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral....

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness.

“I could take whichever I would of these paths.” A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy rises from poverty to become an acclaimed visual artist. He is then swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom—as a prisoner of war, through torture, undergoing captivity in total...

“An hour on this rock is a lifetime.” A Penguin Classic Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher “Pincher” Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink, there is a pool of rainwater; to eat, there are...

“This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.” A Penguin Classic William Golding considered The Inheritors his finest novel, a beautifully realized tale about the last days of the Neanderthal people and our fear of the “other.” The action is...

Prvotina britského nositele Nobelovy ceny Williama Goldinga z roku 1954 je dodnes živou alegorií tyranie, fanatismu a vrozeného sklonu lidské povahy...

Um romance indispensável de William Golding, vencedor do prêmio Nobel, sobre a natureza do mal e a tênue linha que separa a civilidade da barbárie. Considerado um dos 100 melhores romances do século XX pela Modern Library....

Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early 19th 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....