First edition of the Nobel Prize-winner's psychologically harrowing tale of a shipwrecked man coming to terms with his fate — in excellent condition.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $500.00
"Worse than madness. Sanity."
Golding's existentially torturous survival novel has what Booker Prize-winning author and critic Marlon James describes as "one of the most devastating endings in all of 20th-century Literature. The kind of ending that doesn't pull the rug out from under you so much as leave you with the realisation [sic] that there is no rug and no you." Rare with BOOK SOCIETY belly band.
Read More: James, "Forget Lord of the Flies – this is the William Golding novel you need," The Guardian, 2021.
First printing. London: Faber and Faber, (1956). 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. In original unclipped (15s net) color pictorial jacket, designed by Anthony Gross, with yellow belly-band ("Recommended by the BOOK SOCIETY"). 208 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, faint toning at top edge. Book with bit of soil at top edge, light edgewear. Crisp.
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