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Redman/APBritish author William Golding in 1983, the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature.English novelist William Golding (1911) Quotable notable: Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that...

June 19th, 1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), died at 81. In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar House at Perranarworthal, near Truro, Cornwall, where he died of heart failure, eight years later. He was buried in the village churchyard at Bowerchalke, South Wiltshire (near the Hampshire and Dorset county boundaries). http://www.thefuneralsource.org/deathiversary/june/19.html

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey--this article in part focuses on why Golding disliked his novel.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men......William Golding

Lord Of The Flies was William Golding's first novel, published in 1954. It wasn't an immediate success... and that's putting it nicely.

Piggy’s glasses are symbolic for a number of reasons in Lord of the Flies. The spectacles represent the boys’ only means of obtaining fire through reflecting […]

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How many times have you re-read your favorite classic novel

This is my entry to a competition to design a new cover for the book :"Lord of the Flies"

William Golding

Lord of the Flies was one of the first books I remember studying at school in English and really enjoying. It was dark and confusing, and the imagery of the conch/democracy and descent into savagery was something I really could grasp. I found a really pretty copy of the book in a charity shop last year and thought now was as good as time as any to go in for a re-read. It'd been long enough that I remembered the general gist of the book, but couldn't really remember any of the details. Lord…

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60 years after the publication of Lord of the Flies students are still fascinated with William Golding's story of survival. These lesson plan ideas will help teachers engage students on a daily basis.

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Lord of the Flies - William Golding