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  • Sir William Golding
    William Golding
    / Lord of the Flies and other novels

    …and at last reemerged with Darkness Visible (1979), which tells the story of a boy horribly burned in the London Blitz during World War II. The novel received the James Tait Black Prize. His later works include the Sea trilogy, comprising Rites of Passage (1980), which won the Booker Prize,…

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    …and at last reemerged with Darkness Visible (1979), which tells the story of a boy horribly burned in the London Blitz during World War II. The novel received the James Tait Black Prize. His later works include the Sea trilogy, comprising Rites of Passage (1980), which won the Booker Prize,…

    Read More