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
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