what if? (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Are the grown-ups coming now? “This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.” — William Golding, Lord of the Flies I'm not so certain.... We're in a situation today where...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
There are obvious difficulties in staging Lord of the Flies, William Golding's novel about boys isolated on a desert island in a failed evacuation from a future war and the ensuing struggle between civilisation and savagery. The setting at various pl...
European Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
On this date in history: 1911 - Birth of Sir William Golding, a British novelist,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
All hell breaks loose when British schoolboys including Ralph, Piggy and Jack get stranded on a desert island in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The battle for civilisation versus savagery is played out and the boys' attempt at self-rule ends in total disaster. This is perfect material for the violently choreographed piece of physical theatre by Pilot Theatre, a national touring theatre, based...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and all-round literary savant Nigel Williams has written hits such as Helen Mirren's Elizabeth I and The Wimbledon Poisoner, but one of his toughest gigs was adapting William Golding's 1954 classic Lord of the Flies for the stage. "Golding hadn't been happy with either of the film versions and he wanted full approval of my script. Nightmarish, really."
Dr. Housing Bubble Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Many of you in middle school had the opportunity to read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The book looks at two boys, Ralph and Piggy who find themselves on an island next to a plane crash site. Soon they find out that they are not alone on the island. At first, all is civil [...] Related Posts: ■ Foreclosed: Predicting Foreclosures in California. How Many Homes will Be Foreclosed in 2008? ■ Foreclosures?...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Classic "reversal" narratives include William Golding's Lord of the Flies, in which civilised children play savage adults, Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, in which animal rules man, and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle, in which a black character escapes into slavery. Conceptually, Blonde Roots surpasses all of the aforesaid provocation, creating a world in which Europeans are beasts of burden...
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
First sentence: "Suppose you are contemplating an island." Description: "Capturing the mood of William Golding's haunting medieval love story, The Spire, Knowledge Of Angels is a suspenseful fable set on a mythical island in the time of the Inquisition, a time of unquestionable and unquestioned faith and unmerciful justice. The fable spins a tale of two outcasts: a wild, flesh-eating wolf child and...
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Confidential Agent: An Entertainment by Graham Greene (Author) Editorial Reviews Review In a class by himself… the ultimate chronicler of 20th-century man’s consciousness and anxiety. William Golding – Book Description “The confidential agent of the book’s title, D has been sent by his [...]
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com 15 Aug 2008 William Golding was a Nobel Prize-winning author. His most famous work is Lord of the Flies, a novel which I studied for my GCE O-level Literature exams many years ago. The title is actually a reference to the Hebrew name Beelzebub (literally, "god of the fly", "Lord of Flies"), a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan. The book is really quite fascinating....
Mr Wang Says So (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
William Golding was a Nobel Prize-winning author. His most famous work was Lord of the Flies , a novel which I studied for my GCE O-level Literature exams many years ago. The title is actually a reference to the Hebrew name Beelzebub (literally, "god of the fly", "Lord of Flies"), a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan. The book is really quite fascinating. It is a study of the human psyche,...
Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
DMK has left a new comment on your post MEET REV SAM'S NEW COLLEAGUE : Leaving aside the imagery, does anyone think there are forces of evil, or just nasty people who get a bit carried away? Jesus seems to have thought so, even if he went to William Golding for imagery (I think Beelzebub means 'lord of the flies', though of course I could be wrong), rather than Tolkien. Well, that's something substantial...
Pluggedout (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
William Golding, an author famed for his bleak portrayal of youth, once said that childhood is "a disease you grow out of". In my view, he couldn't be more wrong. Childhood should be the most exciting and fulfilling period in a person's life – a time to feel safe, loved and encouraged to believe anything is possible.
Spurious (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Finishing William Golding's The Spire, I felt the same way as I had done at the end of Muriel Spark's The Hothouse on the East River: a need to read about the book and about Golding if only to contain...
