Pyramid

Pyramid

Reissue of the classic novel from Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old.' "Daily Telegraph"

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William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. 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.