The Spire
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The Spire is a 1964 novel by English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of a 404-foot-high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathed
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William Golding
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Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Gol
The Spire
…The Spire is a 1964 novel by English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of a 404-foot-high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral, the…
Golding in 1983
Plaque at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury.
Golding (left), Artur Lundkvist, and Jean-Paul Sartre at a writers' congress in Leningrad, USSR, 1963