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William Golding


Born
in Newquay, Cornwall, England
September 19, 1911

Died
June 19, 1993

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Genre
Fiction

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Euripides, R.M. Ballantyne ...more


Sir William Gerald Golding was an Engish novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.

As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 3,342,879 ratings · 76,407 reviews · 157 distinct works • Similar authors
Lord of the Flies
3.71 avg rating — 3,309,113 ratings — published 1954 — 309 editions
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Lord of the Flies: The Grap...
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4.29 avg rating — 5,918 ratings — published 2024 — 23 editions
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The Inheritors
3.52 avg rating — 5,959 ratings — published 1955 — 148 editions
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Rites of Passage (To the En...
3.57 avg rating — 4,600 ratings — published 1980 — 90 editions
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The Spire
3.49 avg rating — 4,395 ratings — published 1964
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Pincher Martin
3.55 avg rating — 2,702 ratings — published 1956 — 102 editions
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Darkness Visible
3.49 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 1979 — 56 editions
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Free Fall
3.67 avg rating — 1,543 ratings — published 1959 — 116 editions
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The Double Tongue
3.45 avg rating — 1,194 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions
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The Pyramid
3.31 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 1967 — 32 editions
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“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding
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August 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Poll

1932, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 232 pages
 
  23 votes, 17.7%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  22 votes, 16.9%

 
  18 votes, 13.8%

 
  15 votes, 11.5%

1965, Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages
 
  13 votes, 10.0%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.7%

 
  8 votes, 6.2%

 
  6 votes, 4.6%

 
  6 votes, 4.6%

1951, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

 
  3 votes, 2.3%

1985, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 945 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

130 total votes
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