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Lord of the Flies
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In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society.
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Lord of the Flies: Great Books Edition
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En Breve: A Concise Review of Spanish Grammar
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Seymour Resnick
This unique grammar review includes many proverbs, songs and poems to illustrate points of grammar. Abundant, interesting exercises follow each grammar lesson and include reading, cultural and conversational material. Features: * Concise format not only permits the instructor to cover the entire book in one semester, but also allows time to ...
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Darkness visible
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A young boy named Matty is rescued from a horrible fire during the London blitz and is permanently mutilated. He grows up to be a religious visionary. As in all Golding's works, the force for good is balanced by a force for evil, in this case a pair of twins who have been seduced by the attractions of darkness. The novel's title comes from Milton ...
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Rites of Passage
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In the early 1800s, Edmund Talbot, a young and rather priggish Englishman, takes passage on a boat heading for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government. In addition to Talbot, many of the eccentric passengers--a sexually predatory sailor, the aging coquette Miss Zenobia Brocklebank, the ship's tyrannical captain--undergo ...
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The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
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William Golding, Harold Bloom
The bestselling author of The Book of J says that Americans are a nation of Gnostics, believers in a pre-Christian tradition of individual divinity, of a divine spark more primordial than Creation itself--and that God knows and loves each of us.
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies
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Sir William Golding
A dramatization, suitable for schools and amateur dramatic groups, of Golding's bestselling novel. The book contains notes and diagrams for staging, including lighting and sound cues and a full properties list.
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Spire
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Sir William Golding
An allegorical novel about an obsession: in the 14th century, the dean of a cathedral must construct a huge new spire, even though the cathedral cannot bear its weight.
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The Inheritors
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Sir William Golding
This novel is set at the dawn of human existence, during a prehistoric time. A tribe of Neanderthals, living a peaceful, primitive life, is doomed with the arrival of Homo sapiens, a new, weapon-using race who demonstrate their war skills by killing Neanderthals. Golding called this his favorite book, and it was also a favorite of the critics, who ...
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Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
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William Golding, Harold Bloom
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume.
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Free fall
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Sir William Golding
An artist, Sammy Mountjoy, rises to fame from obscurity. Then, during World War II, he is captured by the Nazis and confined to a prison cell in total darkness.The novel traces Sammy's life through flashbacks as he, told that his execution is imminent, reflects upon his past.
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
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Sir William Golding
This is a one-volume edition of the sequence of three novels set in the early 19th century, about a sea voyage from England to Australia. "Rites of Passage" won the Booker Prize.
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Pincher Martin
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Sir William Golding
In the icy desolation of the North Atlantic, senseless with cold and shock, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, is drowning. Then, unbelievably, out of the mirk looms a grotesque shape, larger than any ship. When he has hauled himself on to it and come to his senses a bit, Martin realizes where he must be: on that rock projecting from ...
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The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume IV: Romantic Poetry and Prose
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Sir William Golding, Lionel Trilling (Editor), Professor Harold Bloom (Editor)
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Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism
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Sir William Golding, Professor Harold Bloom (Editor)
'Romanticism and Consciousness' is a comprehensive collection of essays on Romanticism-its intellectual and political backgrounds, its place in literary history, its continued relevance to the present age, its relation to psychoanalysis and other modern trends of thought-and on the major English Romantic poets. The topics covered include the ...
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Close Quarters
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Sir William Golding
The sequel to Golding's Booker Prize-winning novel, RITES OF PASSAGE (1980), set in the 18th century, about an English ship en route to Australia.
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Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
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Lord of the flies : a novel
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William Golding Omnibus
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PINCHER MARTIN is about a naval officer adrift in the Atlantic after his ship is torpedoed. He clings for days to a barren rock, eating sea anemones and trying his best to remain conscious. Delirious, he relives his past. In FREE FALL, an artist, Sammy Mountjoy, rises to fame from obscurity. Then, during World War II, he is captured by the Nazis ...
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Gertrude Stein
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William Golding
Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the modernist writer Gertrude Stein, known for "Tender Buttons", "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", and "Three Lives".
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Joseph Conrad
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Sir William Golding, Professor Harold Bloom (Editor)
Offers a collection of critical essays about the works of the British author.
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Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin
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Sir William Golding
Pincher Martin, a naval officer, is adrift in the Atlantic after his ship is torpedoed. He clings for days to a barren rock, eating sea anemones and trying his best to remain conscious. Delirious, he relives his past. At the end of the novel, it becomes clear that Pincher Martin has been dead all along.
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An Egyptian Journal
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Sir William Golding
William Golding's interest in ancient Egypt has previously been expressed in two essays, and in the novella "The Scorpion God". This account covers his journey down the Nile in today's Egypt. He recalls his trip honestly and humorously, and shares his feelings about Egypt past and present.
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Fire Down Below
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Sir William Golding
An old ship rolls and pitches towards her destination. She still contains - precariously at times - her cosmos of human beings. There are panics, crises, agonizing decisions. There is a marriage at sea. This book completes a trilogy with "Rites of Passage" (Booker Prize) and "Close Quarters".
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Deconstruction and Criticism
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William Golding, Geoffrey H Hartman, Jacques Derrida
Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.
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