William Golding

Bibliography

Works
Poems. – London: Macmillan, 1934
Lord of the Flies. – London: Faber, 1954
The Inheritors. – London: Faber, 1955
Pincher Martin. – London: Faber, 1956. – Republished as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, 1957
Sometime, Never : Three Tales of Imagination / by William Golding, John Wyndham, and Mervyn Peake. – London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956
The Brass Butterfly : a Play in Three Acts. – London: Faber, 1958
Free Fall. – London: Faber, 1959
The Spire. – London: Faber, 1964
The Hot Gates, and Other Occasional Pieces. London: Faber, 1965
The Pyramid. – London: Faber, 1967
The Scorpion God : Three Short Novels. – London: Faber, 1971
Darkness Visible. – London: Faber, 1979
Rites of Passage. – London: Faber, 1980
A Moving Target. – London: Faber, 1982
Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1983. – Leamington Spa, U.K.: Sixth Chamber, 1984
The Paper Men. – London: Faber, 1984
An Egyptian Journal. – London: Faber, 1985
Close Quarters. – London: Faber, 1987
Fire Down Below. – London: Faber, 1989
The Double Tongue. – London: Faber, 1995
 
Critical studies (a selection)
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, The Art of William Golding. – New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1965
Hodson, Leighton, William Golding. – Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1969
Tiger, Virginia, William Golding : the Dark Fields of Discovery. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1976
William Golding, some critical considerations / ed. by Jack I. Biles & Robert O. Evans. – Lexington, Ky. : Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1978
William Golding : the Man and his Books : a Tribute on his 75th Birthday / edited by John Carey. – London : Faber, 1986
Gekoski, R.A., & Grogan, Peter, William Golding : a Bibliography : 1934-1993. – London : Deutsch, 1994
Gregor, Ian, & Kinkead-Weekes, Mark, William Golding : a Critical Study of the Novels. – London: Faber, 2002

The Swedish Academy, 2006

To cite this section
MLA style: William Golding – Bibliography. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Sat. 14 Dec 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1983/golding/bibliography/>

Back to top Back To Top Takes users back to the top of the page

Nobel Prizes and laureates

Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.

See them all presented here.

Illustration

Explore prizes and laureates

Look for popular awards and laureates in different fields, and discover the history of the Nobel Prize.