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'Aimée de Jongh's stunning reimagining has a visceral impact all its own .' The Times 'Beautifully imagined ... so poignant and relevant.' CHRIS MOULD 'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece.' Comics Review Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies. A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost. 'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.' Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn. 'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?' For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimée de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.

Die Graphic-Novel-Adaption bietet eine visuelle Interpretation des berühmten Romans von William Golding, der die Themen von Zivilisation und Urinstinkten behandelt. Durch eindrucksvolle Illustrationen wird die düstere Atmosphäre der Geschichte lebendig, in der eine Gruppe von Jungen nach einem Flugzeugabsturz auf einer einsamen Insel ums Überleben kämpft. Die Adaption beleuchtet die Entwicklung der Charaktere und die moralischen Konflikte, die entstehen, während die Zivilisation zerfällt und die menschliche Natur in ihrer rohen Form zum Vorschein kommt.

Woher kommen wir? Wie frei sind wir? Sammy Mountjoy, ein bekannter Künstler, gerät im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Kriegsgefangenschaft und erinnert sich an sein Leben. An die Kindheit in einem Slum. An die erste, unglückliche Liebe. An das Leben als Künstler ... Schonungslos und erzählerisch brillant stellt sich Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding der Frage, wie frei wir eigentlich sind.

Eine Neuausgabe des Romans, den Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding für seinen besten hielt In seinem Roman »Die Erben« reist Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding in die Vorzeit zurück und versetzt uns in das Leben der Neandertaler. Es ist Frühling, der Stamm verlässt die Höhlen und sucht nach Nahrung. Es gibt erste Werkzeuge, es gibt Feuer und ein gemeinsame Sprache. Niemand ahnt, dass es die letzten Tage der Neandertaler sind ... Eine meisterhafte Parabel vom Aufeinandertreffen zweier Kulturen. Und eine Lobeshymne auf das, was uns Menschen trotz allem verbindet: Freude und Schmerz und die Fähigkeit zu gemeinsamem Handeln. William Goldings Romane »beleuchten die Conditio humana der heutigen Welt.« Komitee zum Literaturnobelpreis

As spring arrives, the remaining people return from the sea, but they encounter terrifying and unprecedented events. Unbeknownst to them, their time as a people is already coming to an end.

Životní příběh mladičké, nehezké venkovské dívky, kterou – protože není schopna najít ženicha – rodiče dají do Delf, kde se stane nejdříve služkou a společnicí věštkyň a nakonec se sama stává Pythií. Líčení duševního stavu, který předchází samotnému věštění, mluvení „druhým jazykem“ – to jsou podstatné části románu, kde se autor zamýšlí nad věšteckou rutinou, kterou Delfy představovaly. Pokrytectví i naivní čistá víra jsou tu dvě strany téže mince.... celý text

A short novel, left in draft form when the author died suddenly in 1993. Portraying a woman's experience - something rare in Golding's oeuvre - the story features one of his finest creations, Arieka the Pythia.

Un aereo cade su un'isola deserta mentre è in corso un conflitto planetario. Sopravvivono solo alcuni ragazzi che si mettono subito all'opera per riorganizzarsi senza l'aiuto ed il controllo degli adulti. Sembra il prologo ideale per un romanzo d'avventura che celebri il pragmatismo e il senso della democrazia britannici. Qualcosa invece comincia a non funzionare come dovrebbe, emergono paure irrazionali e comportamenti asociali, da cui si sviluppa una vicenda che metterà a nudo gli aspetti più selvaggi e repressi della natura umana.

Sea novels set in the early nineteenth century.__

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.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 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.

A sequel to RITES OF PASSAGE, set on board a ship on its way to Australia. A ball is held on the ship whilst it is becalmed in a wilderness of heat and sea mists, and under the influence of this strange atmosphere, soon the passengers and the very ship itself start to go to pieces.

A personal diary of the author's recent trip up the Nile describes the everyday life of the Egyptians and connects it with their ancient past

This powerful, original, and, above all, unpredictable novel pits Wilfred Barclay, a famous but failing British novelist, against Rick L. Tucker, an obscure American academic whose escape from scholarly oblivion hinges on becoming the Barclay Man: biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority. Barclay's slide into destructive drinking, marital failure, and middle-aged lust is alternately pandered to and documented by the indefatigable Tucker. Locked in a lethal relationship of mutual dependence, the two men totter on the brink of physical, emotional, and spiritual chasms, their hatred of each other and themselves growing as they lose their wives, their self-respect, and their illusions. Golding's deceptively comic touch heightens the stunning impact of a climax that is as inevitable as it is unexpected.

A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983. The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".

This novel completes Golding's trilogy, begun with "Rites of Passage" and continued with "Close Quarters". The author won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" and was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1983.

This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyone's business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment .

'Clonk Clonk' plunges us into an even more ancient way of life, primitive, delightful, matriarchal. It contains one of Golding's most appealing female characters, as well as a fascinating and surprising portrayal of masculinity. 'Envoy Extraordinary' brings to life the court of a Roman emperor, nameless, benign yet accustomed to power. He is confronted by a brilliant but unsophisticated Greek whose fertile inventions, centuries before their time, include printing, the pressure cooker, and explosives. This story, later adapted by.

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular. The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.

With an introduction by John Gray Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will? 'A fiercely distinguished book.' Frank Kermode 'It is one of those rare books that should be read by people who don't normally read novels at all. It will stand, I belive, as one of those books against which other books are measures.' Tribune

The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin' s will to live as the sum total of his life.

Román Boh múch sa začína haváriou lietadla na neobývanom ostrove, ktorú prežije iba skupina anglických chlapcov. Pocit dobrodružstva zakrátko vystriedajú hodiny plné hrôzy a strašidelných predstáv. Čitateľ čoskoro stratí pocit, že číta príbeh o deťoch a ocitne sa vo svete dospelých, ktorých najnižšie ľudské pudy, túžba zabíjať a vládnuť brutálne prenikajú tenkým nánosom civilizácie. Román je alegóriou spoločnosti bez práva a zákonov, kde je život neistý a hrozivý; obraz spoločnosti vytvorenej človekom, ktorý stratil nevinnosť a zmenil sa na sebca a nositeľa zla.