“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
William Golding
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Standard Name: Golding, William
Connections
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Textual Production | Emma Tennant | |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | Among a chorus of discriminating praise, Susan Hill
(after identifying herself as a Murdoch enthusiast who ranked her, with William Golding
and Lawrence Durrell
, as one of the three best and most important living... |
Literary responses | Mary Renault | British Book News considered this work as an ambitious historical novel; its laudatory review concentrated on narrative style and plausibility of detail. British Book News. British Council. (1956): 517 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Mitchison | It is set in distant prehistoric times among people without knowledge of fire. Most of the people are a non-particularised They, who seek the survival of all, but have no individuality and no feeling... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | Norman Page called attention to the parallel with William Golding
's Pincher Martin, another novel about psychic survival for some time after physical death, published seventeen years earlier. Page, Norman. Muriel Spark. Macmillan. 86-7 |
Timeline
17 September 1954: William Golding's first novel, The Lord of...
Writing climate item
17 September 1954
William Golding
's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber
after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.
10 December 1983: William Golding from Great Britain was awarded...
Writing climate item
10 December 1983
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