William Golding Quotes


Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.


Citations

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

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William Golding
William Golding
  • Born: September 19, 1911
  • Died: June 19, 1993
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Schoolteacher • Novelist • Playwright • Poet

Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL was a Cornish novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he would go on to publish another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.