The Novels of William Golding
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The Novels of William Golding
The Novels of William Golding
The Ohio State University Press
Howard S. Babb
The Novels of William Golding
All quotations from LORD OF THE FLIES
by William Golding are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Coward-McCann, Inc. Copyright © 1954 by William Gerald Golding.
All quotations from William Golding's THE INHERITORS,
PINCHER MARTIN (original American title: THE TWO DEATHS
OF CHRISTOPHER MARTIN) , FREE FALL, THE SPIRE, a n d THE PYRAMID
are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc. Copyright © 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1967 by William Gerald Golding.
COPYRIGHT © 1 9 7 0 BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catalogue Number 74-83143 International Standard Book Number O-8142-O187-3
FOR CORINNA AND STEPHEN
Contents
I II III IV V VI
Acknowledgments viii Introduction x Lord of the Flies 6 The Inheritors 36 Pincher Martin 64 Free Fall 96 The Spire 134 The Pyramid 168 Conclusion 198 Index 206
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to the University of California for an appoint ment to the Humanities Institute in the summer of 1966 that enabled me to write part of this book. I wish to thank Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Coward-McCann, Inc., for permission to quote from Lord of the Flies; I am grateful to Faber and Faber, Ltd., and to Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., for permission to quote from The Inheritors, Pincher Martin (first published in the United States as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin), Free Fall, The Spire, and The Pyra mid. The editors of Essays in Criticism and The Minnesota Review have kindly permitted me to use, in somewhat altered form, articles about Golding's work that I first published in those journals: a part of the chapter on Pincher Martin origi nally appeared under the title "On the Ending of Pincher
The Novels of William Golding
The Novels of William Golding
The Ohio State University Press
Howard S. Babb
The Novels of William Golding
All quotations from LORD OF THE FLIES
by William Golding are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Coward-McCann, Inc. Copyright © 1954 by William Gerald Golding.
All quotations from William Golding's THE INHERITORS,
PINCHER MARTIN (original American title: THE TWO DEATHS
OF CHRISTOPHER MARTIN) , FREE FALL, THE SPIRE, a n d THE PYRAMID
are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc. Copyright © 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1967 by William Gerald Golding.
COPYRIGHT © 1 9 7 0 BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catalogue Number 74-83143 International Standard Book Number O-8142-O187-3
FOR CORINNA AND STEPHEN
Contents
I II III IV V VI
Acknowledgments viii Introduction x Lord of the Flies 6 The Inheritors 36 Pincher Martin 64 Free Fall 96 The Spire 134 The Pyramid 168 Conclusion 198 Index 206
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to the University of California for an appoint ment to the Humanities Institute in the summer of 1966 that enabled me to write part of this book. I wish to thank Faber and Faber, Ltd., and Coward-McCann, Inc., for permission to quote from Lord of the Flies; I am grateful to Faber and Faber, Ltd., and to Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., for permission to quote from The Inheritors, Pincher Martin (first published in the United States as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin), Free Fall, The Spire, and The Pyra mid. The editors of Essays in Criticism and The Minnesota Review have kindly permitted me to use, in somewhat altered form, articles about Golding's work that I first published in those journals: a part of the chapter on Pincher Martin origi nally appeared under the title "On the Ending of Pincher