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WILLIAM GOLDING

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WILLIAM GOLDING
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>WILLIAM GOLDING </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1911-1993). English novelist, essayist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. His first novel and the one most identified with him, <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, 243pp, 8vo, Coward-McCann, NY, 1962 edition, first published in 1954. Boldly signed on half-title page. Cloth cover evidences general light soiling; occasional light stains; o/w VG/Fine example. Convinced of the inherent barbarism of mankind, Golding was deeply influenced by his experience in World War II, which provided the driving motivation for this book and others that followed.</span></p>