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, 1990.
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An even more intriguing parallel...
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...
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
But many British readers considered it primarily as a parallel...
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...
Textual Production
Emma Tennant
ET
published a novel entitled Queen of Stones, which re-casts William Golding
's Lord of the Flies.
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 September 2009
10 December 1983: William Golding from Great Britain was awarded...
Writing climate item
10 December 1983
William Golding
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.