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About the Author
 
 

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. A now rare volume,
Poems
, appeared in 1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, and also took part in the pursuit of the
Bismarck
. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel,
Lord of the Flies
, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961.
Lord of the Flies
was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in his essay collections
The Hot Gates
and
A Moving Target
. He won the Booker Prize for his novel
Rites of Passage
in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.
The Double Tongue
, a novel left in draft at his death, was published in June 1995.

Books by

Sir William Golding

1911–1993 

Nobel Prize for Literature

   

Fiction

LORD OF THE FLIES

THE INHERITORS

PINCHER MARTIN

FREE FALL

THE SPIRE

THE PYRAMID

THE SCORPION GOD

DARKNESS VISIBLE

THE PAPER MEN

RITES OF PASSAGE

CLOSE QUARTERS

FIRE DOWN BELOW

   

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 

(a revised text of
Rites
of
Passage
,
Close
Quarters
and
Fire
Down
Below
in one volume)

   

Essays

THE HOT GATES

A MOVING TARGET

   

Travel

AN EGYPTIAN JOURNAL

   

Play

THE BRASS BUTTERFLY

LORD OF THE FLIES

adapted for the stage by

Nigel Williams

Copyright
 
 

The Scorpion God
and
Clonk Clonk
first published in 1971
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2012

Envoy Extraordinary
first published in 1956 in
Sometime Never
by Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited

All right reserved
© 1956 and 1971 William Golding

The right of William Golding to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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ISBN
978–0–571–26739–2

 
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