William Golding Libri

Un gruppo di bambini inglesi, sopravvissuti a un incidente aereo, resta abbandonato a se stesso su un'isola deserta. All'inizio tutto ha il sapore di una piacevole vacanza: l'isola è ricca di alberi da frutto, di piccoli cinghiali, c'è perfino un fiume che forma in prossimità del mare una piscina di acqua dolce. I ragazzetti si sentono gli eroi di una straordinaria avventura, si costituiscono in una piccola comunità democraticamente organizzata con un capo, Ralph, un esercito di cacciatori agli ordini di Jack, un parlamento costituito sull'esempio della collettività degli adulti. La ribellione agli ordini e alle leggi, fomentata da Jack, trasformerà questi giovani prodotti della civiltà moderna in una terribile tribù di selvaggi sanguinari dai macabri riti. Il Signore delle Mosche, una testa di porco brulicante di insetti, infissa in un palo nel folto della foresta, non è solo una maschera simbolica, ma è anche la traduzione letterale di Belzebub, biblica radice di ogni male.

Un aereo cade su un'isola deserta mentre è in corso un conflitto planetario. Sopravvivono solo alcuni ragazzi che si mettono subito all'opera per riorganizzarsi senza l'aiuto ed il controllo degli adulti. Sembra il prologo ideale per un romanzo d'avventura che celebri il pragmatismo e il senso della democrazia britannici. Qualcosa invece comincia a non funzionare come dovrebbe, emergono paure irrazionali e comportamenti asociali, da cui si sviluppa una vicenda che metterà a nudo gli aspetti più selvaggi e repressi della natura umana.

'Aimée de Jongh's stunning reimagining has a visceral impact all its own .' The Times 'Beautifully imagined ... so poignant and relevant.' CHRIS MOULD 'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece.' Comics Review Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies. A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost. 'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.' Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn. 'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?' For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimée de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.

As spring arrives, the remaining people return from the sea, but they encounter terrifying and unprecedented events. Unbeknownst to them, their time as a people is already coming to an end.

An illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where the author lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. It also includes his Nobel Speech.

Sea novels set in the early nineteenth century.__

This novel completes Golding's trilogy, begun with "Rites of Passage" and continued with "Close Quarters". The author won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" and was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1983.

In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fecirc;te-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull. The sequel to Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, the second volume in Golding's acclaimed sea trilogy, is imbued with his extraordinary sense of menace. Half-mad with fear, with drink, with love and opium, everyone on this leaky, unsound hulk is 'going to pieces'. And in a nightmarish climax the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship begins to come apart at the seams.

The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own!Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic. And now readers can own it in a beautifully designed hardcover edition worthy of its stature.

A short novel, left in draft form when the author died suddenly in 1993. Portraying a woman's experience - something rare in Golding's oeuvre - the story features one of his finest creations, Arieka the Pythia.

With an introduction by John Gray Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will? 'A fiercely distinguished book.' Frank Kermode 'It is one of those rare books that should be read by people who don't normally read novels at all. It will stand, I belive, as one of those books against which other books are measures.' Tribune

One man's vision of erecting a magnificent cathedral spire heralds apocalypse in this epic tale of obsession by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook). There were three sorts of people.

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin' s will to live as the sum total of his life.

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

Golding seduces us, transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.' Nicola Barker'The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding's novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth-century.' Philip Hensher'A master craftsman in [his] magic ...

'Clonk Clonk' plunges us into an even more ancient way of life, primitive, delightful, matriarchal. It contains one of Golding's most appealing female characters, as well as a fascinating and surprising portrayal of masculinity. 'Envoy Extraordinary' brings to life the court of a Roman emperor, nameless, benign yet accustomed to power. He is confronted by a brilliant but unsophisticated Greek whose fertile inventions, centuries before their time, include printing, the pressure cooker, and explosives. This story, later adapted by.

But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyone's business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment .

A personal diary of the author's recent trip up the Nile describes the everyday life of the Egyptians and connects it with their ancient past

This powerful, original, and, above all, unpredictable novel pits Wilfred Barclay, a famous but failing British novelist, against Rick L. Tucker, an obscure American academic whose escape from scholarly oblivion hinges on becoming the Barclay Man: biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority. Barclay's slide into destructive drinking, marital failure, and middle-aged lust is alternately pandered to and documented by the indefatigable Tucker. Locked in a lethal relationship of mutual dependence, the two men totter on the brink of physical, emotional, and spiritual chasms, their hatred of each other and themselves growing as they lose their wives, their self-respect, and their illusions. Golding's deceptively comic touch heightens the stunning impact of a climax that is as inevitable as it is unexpected.

Wolfgang Held, geboren am 15. August 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau, war Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Pianist. Er promovierte 1961 über Georg Trakl und arbeitete von 1961 bis 1973 als Lektor für den Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) an Universitäten in Madras, Ljubljana und Edinburgh. Anschließend wurde er Senior Lecturer an der Greenwich University in London, wo er bis zu seinem Tod 2016 lebte. Sein literarisches Werk umfasst Romane, Essays sowie Prosa- und Gedichtübersetzungen, beginnend mit „Die im Glashaus“ (1965) bis hin zu „Schattenfabel“ (2014). Zu seinen weiteren Romanen zählen „Die schöne Gärtnerin“ (1979), „Rabenkind“ (1985) und „Traum vom Hungerturm“ (2007). Held erhielt Anerkennung durch Einladungen zu literarischen Veranstaltungen und den Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises (1983). Seine Übersetzungen für Suhrkamp brachten bedeutende englische und irische Autoren wie Samuel Beckett und T. S. Eliot einem breiteren deutschen Publikum näher. Sein Theaterstück „Hoffmanns Verbrennung“ wurde 2015 uraufgeführt und mit Collagen aus seinem Hoffmann-Zyklus kombiniert. Musik und Kunst spielten eine zentrale Rolle in seinem Leben; als Pianist trat er in verschiedenen Städten auf und produzierte Sendungen für SWF und NDR.

Eine Neuausgabe des Romans, den Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding für seinen besten hielt In seinem Roman »Die Erben« reist Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding in die Vorzeit zurück und versetzt uns in das Leben der Neandertaler. Es ist Frühling, der Stamm verlässt die Höhlen und sucht nach Nahrung. Es gibt erste Werkzeuge, es gibt Feuer und ein gemeinsame Sprache. Niemand ahnt, dass es die letzten Tage der Neandertaler sind ... Eine meisterhafte Parabel vom Aufeinandertreffen zweier Kulturen. Und eine Lobeshymne auf das, was uns Menschen trotz allem verbindet: Freude und Schmerz und die Fähigkeit zu gemeinsamem Handeln. William Goldings Romane »beleuchten die Conditio humana der heutigen Welt.« Komitee zum Literaturnobelpreis

Die Graphic-Novel-Adaption bietet eine visuelle Interpretation des berühmten Romans von William Golding, der die Themen von Zivilisation und Urinstinkten behandelt. Durch eindrucksvolle Illustrationen wird die düstere Atmosphäre der Geschichte lebendig, in der eine Gruppe von Jungen nach einem Flugzeugabsturz auf einer einsamen Insel ums Überleben kämpft. Die Adaption beleuchtet die Entwicklung der Charaktere und die moralischen Konflikte, die entstehen, während die Zivilisation zerfällt und die menschliche Natur in ihrer rohen Form zum Vorschein kommt.

Životní příběh mladičké, nehezké venkovské dívky, kterou – protože není schopna najít ženicha – rodiče dají do Delf, kde se stane nejdříve služkou a společnicí věštkyň a nakonec se sama stává Pythií. Líčení duševního stavu, který předchází samotnému věštění, mluvení „druhým jazykem“ – to jsou podstatné části románu, kde se autor zamýšlí nad věšteckou rutinou, kterou Delfy představovaly. Pokrytectví i naivní čistá víra jsou tu dvě strany téže mince.... celý text

Woher kommen wir? Wie frei sind wir? Sammy Mountjoy, ein bekannter Künstler, gerät im Zweiten Weltkrieg in Kriegsgefangenschaft und erinnert sich an sein Leben. An die Kindheit in einem Slum. An die erste, unglückliche Liebe. An das Leben als Künstler ... Schonungslos und erzählerisch brillant stellt sich Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding der Frage, wie frei wir eigentlich sind.