The Inheritors

The Inheritors

by WilliamGolding (Author)

Synopsis

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. There were inexplicable sounds and smells, new, unimaginable creatures half-glimpsed through the leaves: a new race of men and women. Though they did not know it yet, though they were never really to know it, the day of the people was over. It had ended a long time ago. The Inheritors is a brilliant imaginative recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and of the Neanderthals' successors - the first humans

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 22 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 0571192580
ISBN 13: 9780571192588
Book Overview: The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

Author Bio
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and was present at the sinking of the Bismarck. His first novel, Lord of the Files, was published in 1954. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, and was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993