Bücher von William Golding

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued.

Golding's iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

Eine Neuausgabe des Romans, den Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding für seinen besten hielt In seinem Roman »Die Erben« reist Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding in die Vorzeit zurück und versetzt uns in das Leben der Neandertaler. Es ist Frühling, der Stamm verlässt die Höhlen und sucht nach Nahrung. Es gibt erste Werkzeuge, es gibt Feuer und ein gemeinsame Sprache. Niemand ahnt, dass es die letzten Tage der Neandertaler sind ... Eine meisterhafte Parabel vom Aufeinandertreffen zweier Kulturen. Und eine Lobeshymne auf das, was uns Menschen trotz allem verbindet: Freude und Schmerz und die Fähigkeit zu gemeinsamem Handeln. William Goldings Romane »beleuchten die Conditio humana der heutigen Welt.« Komitee zum Literaturnobelpreis

A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down his collapsing faith.

The final book in a classic series that began with the Man Booker Prize-winning Rites of Passage An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbot's journal--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship.To the Ends of the Earth:1. Rites of Passage2. Close Quarters3. Fire Down Below

To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Close Quarters marks the sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Rites of Passage Told through the pages of Edmund Talbot's journal--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship.An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill.To the Ends of the Earth:1. Rites of Passage2. Close Quarters3. Fire Down Below

Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize William Golding's To the Ends of the Earth trilogy is now a BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a "hell of degradation," where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.To the Ends of the Earth:1. Rites of Passage2. Close Quarters3. Fire Down Below

English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.

The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts embody, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian with a wicked sense of humor, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel, left in draft at the author's death in 1993, is a psychological and historical triumph. Golding has created a vivid and comic picture of ancient Greek society as well as an absolutely convincing portrait of a woman's experience, something rare in the Golding oeuvre. Arieka the Pythia is one of his finest creations.Left in draft at the author's death in 1993, this extraordinary short novel is a psychological and historical triumph. An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the voice of the god Apollo. Golding was the author of Lord of the Flies, and a Nobel Laureate.

Three short novels show Golding at his subtle, ironic, mysterious best. The Scorpion God depicts a challenge to primal authority as the god-ruler of an ancient civilization lingers near death. Clonk Clonk is a graphic account of a crippled youth's triumph over his tormentors in a primitive matriarchal society. Envoy Extraordinary is a tale of Imperial Rome where the emperor loves his illegitimate son more than his own arrogant, loutish heir.

Set in the superficially placid English village of Stillbourne, The Pyramid represents three episodes in the life of Oliver-as a schoolboy, an undergraduate, and a mature young man. A compelling tale about Oliver's increasing awareness of the deeper meanings of the relationships and events of his youth.

Dieses Unterrichtsmodell bezieht sich auf folgende Textausgabe: Diesterweg, Bestell-Nr.: 04846Eine unbewohnte Insel in der Südsee im ersten Teil des letzten Jahrhunderts. Eine Gruppe von britischen Jungen findet sich nach einer Evakuierung aufgrund eines Atomkrieges dort wieder und beginnt, unter Führung des Jungen Ralph eine demokratische Ordnung herzustellen. Doch schon bald treten in Gestalt einer Teilgruppe der Jungen unter Führung von Jack diktatorische und zerstörerische Kräfte auf, die die Situation auf der Insel zur Eskalation bringen. Nur durch die Ankunft einer Schiffsbesatzung wird eine Katastrophe verhindert.Der 1954 geschriebene Roman des britischen Autors William Gerald Golding fesselt die Leser aufgrund der eindrucksvollen und poetisch kraftvollen Beschreibung der Entwicklungen in der Gesellschaft der Jungen, die an dem Versuch, eine demokratische Ordnung herzustellen, scheitern und auf eine Katastrophe zusteuern. Bedeutsam ist auch die Einbindung philosophischer Aspekte. Die Lektüre des Romans lässt sich mit oberstufenrelevanten Themen wie Society and the Individual, Aggression and Violence, Leadership und Political Systems verknüpfen.Goldings Roman eignet sich als Schullektüre ab der 10. Jahrgangsstufe. Dieses Unterrichtsmodell liefert einen praxisorientierten Leitfaden zur Behandlung im Unterricht.Contents:Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The Author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des UnterrichtsmodellsComponent 1: Trying to Establish a Democratic Society: Life on an uninhabited island: paradise? - Piggy: defender of civilization - Social responsibility versus primitive egoism - First step towards savageryComponent 2: Daylight Sanity Versus Growing Anarchy: Rational action versus irrational action - The beast: product of human imagination - Civilized standards and instinctive action - Jack's desertion and Simon's encounter with the Lord of the FliesComponent 3: Loss of Rationality: Simon: first victim of frenzy - How to live with a guilty conscience - Piggy: another victim of pure hatred - The final huntComponent 4: Film Analysis: The language of film - Analysis of the sow-killing scene - How to film the rescue scene