William Golding (1911–1993)

Auteur de Sa Majesté des Mouches

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A propos de l'auteur

William Golding was born in Cornwall, England on September 19, 1911. Although educated to be a scientist at the request of his father, he developed an interest in literature. At Oxford University, he studied natural science for two years and then transferred to a program for English literature and afficher plus philosophy. He eventually became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. During World War II, he joined the Royal Navy and was involved in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. After the war, he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School and taught there until 1962. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was made into a film in 1963. His other novels include The Inheritors, Free Fall, The Spire, The Pyramid, The Paper Men, Close Quarters, and Fire down Below. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He also wrote plays, essays, and short stories. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. He died on June 19, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Comprend les noms: Golding U., U. Golding, William Golding, William Golding, 윌리엄 골딩, Sir William Golding, William Gerald Golding, וילים גולדינג, Уильям Голдинг, ウィリアム・ゴールディング

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Séries

To the Ends of the Earth

Œuvres de William Golding

Populaires Récent

Sa Majesté des Mouches (1954) 48,523 exemplaires

Les Héritiers (1955) 1,474 exemplaires

Rites of Passage (1980) 1,205 exemplaires

La nef (1964) 1,120 exemplaires

Pincher Martin (1956) 876 exemplaires

Darkness Visible (1979) 649 exemplaires

Free Fall (1959) 576 exemplaires

Les hommes de papier (1984) 445 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) (1987) 445 exemplaires

Close Quarters (1987) 357 exemplaires

Fire Down Below (1980) 332 exemplaires

The Pyramid (1967) 310 exemplaires

To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980) 286 exemplaires

The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels (1971) 282 exemplaires

The Double Tongue (1995) 244 exemplaires

Sometime, never : three tales of imagination (1956) 201 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies: Golding William 185 exemplaires

The Hot Gates (1957) 143 exemplaires

An Egyptian Journal (1605) 120 exemplaires

A Moving Target (1982) 89 exemplaires

William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1996) 58 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies (Penguin Study Notes) (1999) 50 exemplaires

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts (1957) 43 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies / Pincher Martin / Rites of Passage (1984) — Auteur — 42 exemplaires

William Golding Three Novels: Includes Pincher Martin, Free Fall, the Inheritors (1997) 38 exemplaires

William Golding: The Man and His Books - A Tribute on His 75th Birthday (1986) 16 exemplaires

Kärbeste jumal ; Mereristsed : [romaanid] (1989) — Auteur — 13 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies - Casebook Edition: Text, Notes & Criticism — Auteur — 11 exemplaires

American Fiction 1914 to 1945 (Critical Cosmos) (1987) 8 exemplaires

Lord of the flies (2006) 8 exemplaires

L'envoyé extraordinaire : Nouvelle extraite du recueil Le Dieu scorpion (2006) 8 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition) (1979) 7 exemplaires

Novelas (1983) 6 exemplaires

Elements of Literature: Lord of the Flies (1989) 6 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies. Vokabularien (1999) 5 exemplaires

Lord of the flies. The pyramid. Envoy extraordinary (1982) 5 exemplaires

Ceberut Martin (2018) 4 exemplaires

Le opere: Il signore delle mosche: Riti di passaggio: Gli uomini di carta (1987) 4 exemplaires

X-Kit Literature Series: Lord of the Flies: FET Phase (X-Kit Literature Series) (2005) 4 exemplaires

Novel Ideas Classic: Lord of the Flies: William Golding (1997) 3 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies / The Pyramid 3 exemplaires

The Spire / The Pyramid (1965) 2 exemplaires

Nobel Lecture : 7 December 1983 (1984) 2 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies: Paris the Great, the Complete Works of World Literature 19 (1999) 2 exemplaires

Sa Majeste des Mouches (Folio) by William Golding(1989-12-22) (1989) 2 exemplaires

The Lord of the Flies 2 exemplaires

Talk : Conversations with William Golding. (1970) 2 exemplaires

Señor de las moscas 1 exemplaire

Lord of the Rings (1954) 1 exemplaire

The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 2 Early Renaissance) (1986) 1 exemplaire

Sobranie sochinenii. Tom 2 (1999) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire

Miss Pulkinhorn 1 exemplaire

lord of the flies volume 1 1 exemplaire

lord of the flies volume 2 1 exemplaire

Autores Modernos, Novelas 1 exemplaire

Freefall 1 exemplaire

WIDEVIEW/PERIGEE BOOKS 1 exemplaire

Charles Baudelaire (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1987) 1 exemplaire

Vidna tema 1 exemplaire

Poems 1 exemplaire

Sobranie sochinenij. Tom 1 (1998) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire

Nasljednici (2022) 1 exemplaire

Clonk! Clonk! 1 exemplaire

Lord of the Flies: Novel-Ties Study Guide (1983) 1 exemplaire

Arieka (DU MONDE ENTIER) (2001) 1 exemplaire

1983 1 exemplaire

Lord of the Flies, adapted and annotated for schools by G. van Veelo 1 exemplaire

Lord of the Flies Activity Pack (2001) 1 exemplaire

Lord of the Flies (Teacher Guide Grades 9-12) 1 exemplaire

Lord of the flies : notes 1 exemplaire

I premi Nobel per la letteratura. Jose ECHEGARAY. 1904. (1964) 1 exemplaire

Повелитель мух Шпиль; Пирамида : Романы / Уильям Голдинг; [Пер. с… (1999) 1 exemplaire

Explorateur d'oeuvres

Oeuvres associés

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contributeur — 423 exemplaires

The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contributeur — 169 exemplaires

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributeur — 141 exemplaires

Sa Majesté des mouches [film, 1963] (1963) — Original book — 126 exemplaires

The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contributeur — 109 exemplaires

Lord of the Flies (1990) — Original novel — 52 exemplaires

The Genius of the Later English Theater (1962) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires

James Joyce's Ulysses (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1659) 33 exemplaires

Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival (Adrenaline) (2001) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires

Marcel Proust (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1987) 28 exemplaires

William Shakespeare's King Lear (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 17 exemplaires

Nobel Writers on Writing (2000) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires

The Bedside 'Guardian' 30: A Selection from The Guardian, 1980-1981 (1981) — Introduction — 9 exemplaires

A Hermit Disclosed (1985) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires

Thomas Mann (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires

William Golding: Some Critical Considerations (1978) — Préface — 4 exemplaires

The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (10-Volume Set) (1985) 3 exemplaires

James Merrill (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires

Charles Baudelaire (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1987) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires

Antaeus No. 35, Autumn 1979 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal: Golding, William Gerald
Date de naissance: 1911-09-19
Date de décès: 1993-06-19
Lieu de sépulture: Bowerchalke Village Churchyard, Bowerchalke, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Royaume-Uni
Pays (pour la carte): Royaume-Uni
Lieu de naissance: Newquay, Cornwall, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Lieu du décès: Perranarworthal, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Cause du décès: heart failure
Lieux de résidence: Newquay, Cornwall, England, UK (birth)
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, UK
Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, England, UK
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Perranarworthal, England, UK (death)
Études: Oxford University (BA|1934 - Brasenose College)
Marlborough Grammar School
Professions: novelist
teacher
sailor
Relations: Golding, Alec (father)
Golding, Joseph (brother)
Curnoe, Mildred (mother)
Brookfield, Ann (wife)
Golding, Judith (daughter)
Golding, David (son) (tout afficher 7)
Lovelock, James (friend and neighbour)
Organisations: Royal Navy (WWII)
Bishop Wordsworth's School
Prix et distinctions: Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1983)
Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire ( [1965])
Knight Bachelor (1988)
Courte biographie: Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet who won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.

Golding was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1988.[1][2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Membres

Discussions

BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - OCTOBER 2016 - ATKINSON & GOLDING à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Octobre 2016)

British children abandoned on a deserted island - Fiction - forty or fifty years ago à Name that Book (Février 2014)

Happy 100th to The Lord of the Fly in the Ointment, Sir William Golding à Nobel Laureates in Literature (Mars 2013)

Critiques

Les Héritiers par William Golding

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Golding-Les-Heritiers/284642

Signalé

Joop-le-philosophe | 46 autres critiques | Aug 22, 2021 |

Chris Martin (Limaginaire) par William Golding

> C'est un roman remarquable et à plus d'un titre, extrêmement original, et qui manifeste une maîtrise admirable de l'art littéraire. --Danieljean (Babelio)

> Citations et Extraits (Babelio) : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Golding-Chris-Martin/398742#citations… (plus d'informations)

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Joop-le-philosophe | 21 autres critiques | Feb 20, 2021 |

L'envoyé extraordinaire par William Golding

> Si vous voulez tenter une première approche des écrits de William Golding à peu de frais, qui est une nouvelle tirée du recueil "Le dieu scorpion". --Danieljean (Babelio)

> Citations et Extraits (Babelio) : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Golding-Lenvoye-extraordinaire--Nouvelle-extraite...

> Lecture / Ecriture : http://www.lecture-ecriture.com/10126-L'envoy%C3%A9-extraordinaire-William-Goldi...… (plus d'informations)

Signalé

Joop-le-philosophe | 1 autre critique | Feb 20, 2021 |

Parade sauvage par William Golding

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Golding-Parade-sauvage/202572

> L'un des grands romans anglais du XXe siècle... Incontournable.
—Danieljean (Babelio)

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Joop-le-philosophe | 10 autres critiques | Feb 20, 2021 |

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