- English Science fiction, Fiction, Neanderthals, Prehistoric peoples
Golding’s follow-up to Lord of the Flies, this is an unusual novel about the last tribe of Neanderthals in Europe and their fatal encounter with a tribe of more advanced and infinitely more ruthless Humans.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- William Golding
- First published
- July 1996
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Fischer, Pocket, Harcourt, Brace & World
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- fin, German, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780571070022
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“Lok was running as fast as he could.”
The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), which is consistently regarded as an effective and disturbing portrayal of the fragility of civilization. **Childhood and college years** Golding was born in Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His father, Alex, was a schoolmaster, while his mother, Mildred, was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement (the movement for women's right to vote). As a boy, his favorite authors included H. G. Wells (1866–1946), Jules
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