The Spire

Name: The Spire
Author: William Golding

by William Golding

Novel of an ambitious cathedral spire's construction and its destructive spiritual legacy

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William Golding

British novelist whose Lord of the Flies is one of the most widely read novels in the English language. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. His subsequent novels, including Rites of Passage, explored human darkness and moral complexity across a range of historical settings.

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