William Golding
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1962], ©1955
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.
8) The pyramid
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1967]
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
183 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
c1986, 1956
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Free fall
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c1987, c1959
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
Casebook ed., 1st Perigee ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In addition to the full text of Lord of the Flies, this volume contains statements by Golding about the novel, reminiscences of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E.M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of view. Included are psychological, religious, and literary approaches by noted scholars and studies of the novel's relation to earlier works, as well as to other writings by Golding.--Publisher description....
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (267 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane that is evacuating them from a war-threatened England crashlands. Without adult control, the boys regress to savagery.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty English schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war. With no adults present, they quickly turn into savages.
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
