William Golding Libri

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.

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.

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.

A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983.The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".

The story begins with a plane crash that leaves a group of children stranded on a deserted island, initially leading to innocent play and exploration. However, as time passes, their games take a dark turn, revealing the underlying savagery and primal instincts that emerge in the absence of adult supervision. The narrative explores themes of civilization versus savagery, the loss of innocence, and the inherent darkness within humanity.

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.

The classic Golding novel republished with a beautiful new jacket.

Sea novels set in the early nineteenth century.__

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.

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.