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The Golding family lived at 29, The Green, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Golding and his elder brother Joseph attending the school at which their father taught. [8] Golding's mother was a campaigner for female suffrage; she was Cornish and was considered by her son "a superstitious Celt ", who used to tell him old Cornish ghost stories from her own ...
After the war ended and Golding returned to England, the world was dominated by Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation, which led Golding to examine the nature of humanity and went on to inspire Lord of the Flies. [5] Lord of the Flies was rejected by many publishers before being accepted by Faber & Faber. An initial rejection labelled ...
Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British survival drama film based on William Golding's 1954 novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where the behaviour of the majority degenerates into savagery.
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William Godwin (1756–1836), Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams; William Godwin (1803–1832) Julia Golding (born 1969), The Diamond of Drury Lane; William Golding (1911–1993), Lord of the Flies; Martin J. Goodman (born 1956) Jason Goodwin (born 1964), The Janissary Tree; John Gordon (1925–2017) supernatural fiction
Suddenly we're pining for the 1950s and '60s. Okay, not in terms of technology, movies or even politics -- but throwback photos from the early Emmy Awards have us longing for the days of classic ...
Get ready to swoon as we showcase 16 stunning photos that prove 1950s jewelry was the ultimate showstopper. 1. French Designer Coco Chanel Boarding a Plane in Texas, 1957.
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...