William Golding

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Apart from writing, his past and present occupations include being a schoolmaster, a lecturer, an actor, a sailor, and a musician. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. After two years at Oxford he read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-Saxon. He spent live years at Oxford. [Read more]

Free Fall
Harbinger Books, 1962 (PhP 100.00)
Samuel Mountjoy, artist, is promised torture in a prisoner-of-war camp, then locked in a cell in total darkness to wait. Sammy comes from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of and and eternity in an hour. He sees, too, and here begins his purgation, what men might be, and what he for one has made of himself by gradual progressive choice. It sends him on a pilgrimage back through his life, seeking its point of departure.