William Golding Libros

Novela que da fin a la llamada “Trilogía del mar”, " Fuego en las entrañas " ultima la narración de la larga travesía hacia Australia iniciada meses atrás desde Inglaterra, en la época de las guerras napoleónicas, por una galería de personajes encabezada por el caballero Edmund Talbot. La atmósfera cerrada del maltrecho navío que forzosamente mantiene a unos y otros juntos y prisioneros parece ir cargándose a medida que el cercano final se hace más incierto. En esta serie que se desarrolla a través de tres novelas " Ritos de paso " , " Cuerpo a cuerpo " y " Fuego en las entrañas " las cuales, pese a integrar una unidad, admiten cada una de por sí una lectura independiente, William Golding, autor de " El Señor de las Moscas " , forja un magistral relato de aprendizaje a la vez que una prodigiosa recreación histórica

Una treintena de muchachos son los únicos supervivientes de un naufragio en el que perecen todos los adultos. Enseguida se plantea cómo sobrevivir en tales condiciones, y no tardan en crearse dos grupos con sus respectivos líderes. Ralph se convierte en el cabecilla de quienes están dispuestos a construir refugios y a recolectar, mientras que Jack se convierte en el jefe de los cazadores, animados por un espíritu más aventurero. Las tensiones entre ambos bandos desembocan en un enfrentamiento que se resuelve en un baño de sangre. Partiendo de este esquema, el Premio Nobel William Golding crea una fábula moral sobre el lado más oscuro de la naturaleza humana. Una novela deslumbrante en la que se ha visto desde una requisitoria moral contra la educación represiva hasta una parábola acerca de los instintos básicos del ser humano. El señor de las moscas es un nombre para el mal en la cultura judía, y este es uno de los temas principales de la novela, junto con la contraposición entre civilización y barbarie y la validez de la disciplina, entre otros muchos.

As spring arrives, the remaining people return from the sea, but they encounter terrifying and unprecedented events. Unbeknownst to them, their time as a people is already coming to an end.

A Moving Target is a collection of essays and lectures written by William Golding. It was first published in 1982 by Faber and Faber but subsequent reprints included Golding's Nobel Prize lecture which he gave after being awarded the honour in 1983.The book is divided into the two sections of "Places" and "Ideas".

The story begins with a plane crash that leaves a group of children stranded on a deserted island, initially leading to innocent play and exploration. However, as time passes, their games take a dark turn, revealing the underlying savagery and primal instincts that emerge in the absence of adult supervision. The narrative explores themes of civilization versus savagery, the loss of innocence, and the inherent darkness within humanity.

The classic Golding novel republished with a beautiful new jacket.

Sea novels set in the early nineteenth century.__

In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fecirc;te-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull. The sequel to Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, the second volume in Golding's acclaimed sea trilogy, is imbued with his extraordinary sense of menace. Half-mad with fear, with drink, with love and opium, everyone on this leaky, unsound hulk is 'going to pieces'. And in a nightmarish climax the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship begins to come apart at the seams.

A short novel, left in draft form when the author died suddenly in 1993. Portraying a woman's experience - something rare in Golding's oeuvre - the story features one of his finest creations, Arieka the Pythia.

"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.