Works by
William Golding
(Writer)
[September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993]

Essays

• A Moving Target (1982)

• The Hot Gates (1965)

Fiction

• The Double Tongue: A Draft of a Novel (1996)
  Published posthumously.

• An Egyptian Journal (1985)

• The Paper Men (1984)
  English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determination to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.

• Darkness Visible (1979)
  The book opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding’s book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

• The Scorpion God (1971)

• The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (1967)

• The Pyramid (1967)

• The Spire (1964)
  The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure’s weight as the Dean’s will weighs down his collapsing faith.

• Free Fall (1959)
  Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.

• Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin (1956)
  The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin’s will to live as the sum total of his life.

• The Inheritors (1955)
  Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.

• Lord of the Flies (1954)
  William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. Golding's portrayal of the collapse of social order into chaos draws the fine line between innocence and savagery.

To the Ends of the Earth Trilogy
The extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journal — with equal measure of wit and disdain — it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship.

1. Rites of Passage (1980)

2. Close Quarters (1987)

3. Fire Down Below (1989)

• To the Ends of the Earth (1991)
   

• See also the three-part Masterpiece Theatre Drama (2006), David Attwood, director with Charles Dance and Jared Harris  DVD  VHS

Plays

• The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts (1958)

Poetry

• Poems (1934)

Other

• James Merrill (1985) by  William Golding with Harold Bloom

• Sometime Never: Three Tales of Science and Fantasy (1971)
  Includes works by John Wyndham, Mervyn Peake, and William Golding

See also:

• William Golding's Lord of the Flies (2008), Harold Bloom, ed.

• William Golding: The Unmoved Target (2003) by Virginia Tiger

• William Golding: A Critical Study of the Novels (2002) by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes

• Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (2000) by Kirstin Olsen

• Acts of Attention (1999) by Tamas Benyei
  Readings of five postwar British novels:  (Evelyn Waugh: 'Brideshead Revisited', Ian McEwan: 'The Innocent'), Jeanette Winterson: 'The Passion', John Fowles: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', and William Golding: 'Sea Trilogy')

• Readings on Lord of the Flies (1997), Clarice Swisher, ed.

• William Golding (1993) by Lawrence S. Friedman

• William Golding: The Sound of Silence (1991) by Jeanne Delbaere

• William Golding (1990, 2004) by  Kevin McCarron

• William Golding's Use of Symbolism (1990) by Nicola C. Dicken-Fuller

• Critical Essays on William Golding (1988), James R. Baker, ed.

• William Golding (1988) by James Gindin

• William Golding: Some Critical Considerations (1978) by Jack I. Biles and  Robert O. Evans

• William Golding: A Cricital Study (1975) by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes

• William Golding (1969) by Clive Pemberton

• William Golding (1969) by Leighton Hodson

• Art of William Golding (1968) by Oldsey Bs