![]() ![]() ![]() Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. The Inheritors is an imaginative reconstruction of the life of a band of Neanderthals. Golding, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies. Sir William Gerald Golding, was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." He was awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. Classical Greek literature, such as that of Euripides, and The Battle of Maldon, an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre of unknown author influenced him.Ĭollege students in the 1950s and 1960s gave the attention to Lord of the Flies, first novel of Golding their attention drove that of literary critics. This experience strongly influenced his future novels. Golding spent two years, focusing on sciences, in Oxford but changed his educational emphasis to English, especially Anglo-Saxon, literature.ĭuring World War II, he served as part of the royal Navy, which he left five years later. ![]() People best know this British novelist, poet, and playwright for this novel. ![]() People note British writer Sir William Gerald Golding for his dark novels, especially The Lord of the Flies (1954) he won the Nobel Prize of 1983 for literature. ![]()
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