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Article: A Critical Look at Golding's Novels.(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- October 1, 2003
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William Golding: A Critical Study of the Novels. Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor. Faber and Faber. 16.99 [pounds sterling] p. b. 412 pages. ISBN 0-571-21564-5.
It is now a decade since William Golding's sudden death from heart failure whilst working on his last novel, The Double Tongue. Reaction in the press was generally of intense respect: at eighty-one his was a long and ultimately laurelled literary career. With such classics as Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage, he was, in the view of many, an unquestionable icon. The 1970s had, however, seen a dip in his critical standing, and the academic team of Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor were among the ...