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The Inheritors

The Inheritors

by WilliamGolding (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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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. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would, know, was that the day of their people was already over...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 0571273580
ISBN 13: 9780571273584
Book Overview: The Inheritors by William Golding - the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and author of Lord of the Flies - is a startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthal, and a frightening vision of the beginnings of a new age.

Author Bio
William Golding (1911-1993) was a Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies, published originally in 1954 and adapted for film in 1963. His other works include The Inheritors (1955),Pincher Martin (1956), The Spire (1964), Rites of Passage (1980), The Double Tongue (published posthumously in 1995) a now rare volume, Poems (1934) and the essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target. Golding was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before his writing career, Golding was a schoolmaster. He was also a keen actor, musician and small-boat sailor. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 .