William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. A now rare volume, Poems, appeared in 1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-day invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961.
Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in his essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993. The Double Tongue, a novel left in draft at his death, was published in June 1995. - See more at: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/william-golding#sthash.Hos5xYe4.dpuf
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.
In this, his first novel, William Golding gave the traditional adventure story an ironic, devastating twist. The boys' delicate sense of order fades, and their childish fears are transformed into something deeper and more primitive. Their games take on a horrible significance, and before long the well-behaved party of schoolboys has turned into a tribe of faceless, murderous savages.
First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognized as a classic, one of the most celebrated of all modern novels.
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This book is about revelation of the dark side of the human nature, about how reason succumbs to savageness and how a civilised society dismantles into pieces of brutality. The chiefdom consisting school boys in the novel is an allegory of human society in ...
评分故事乍看起来没什么创意,古今中外都有的荒岛小说,一群孩子被空投到一个与世隔绝的小岛,以及与之而来的民主文明与丛林法则的对抗。甚至在阅读过程中脑海里不断涌现的是HBO拍的那部lost,也恰巧与lost相仿,这部小说渗入了争夺领袖权、神秘主义等元素,虽然主角只是一群孩子,...
评分我一直以为,在英语写作史上,抛开文学因素,有两位作家是值得全世界去尊敬的。 他们是William Golding和George Orwell。 1983年诺贝尔文学奖得主戈尔丁的获奖作品<蝇王>是世界上对人性挖掘最深刻也最悲观的作品之一,它是足以让所有良知未泯的人落泪的。人性是什么?戈尔丁...
评分我一直以为,在英语写作史上,抛开文学因素,有两位作家是值得全世界去尊敬的。 他们是William Golding和George Orwell。 1983年诺贝尔文学奖得主戈尔丁的获奖作品<蝇王>是世界上对人性挖掘最深刻也最悲观的作品之一,它是足以让所有良知未泯的人落泪的。人性是什么?戈尔丁...
评分看得头皮发麻,虽然不喜欢但确实是很好的书。一个女同学在课上看到PIGGY死的那段由衷的哀鸣:WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE CHILDREN
评分人类潜在的野蛮?
评分就是这个封面是个猪头版的。在读中,想看看封面是猪头是不是因为piggy
评分終於看完了
评分the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the turn.
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