The Spire - Couverture souple

Golding, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143138812 ISBN 13 : 9780143138815

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2026

Synopsis

Succumb to a churchman’s apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Benjamin Myers

A Penguin Classic

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles – until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire’s shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Golding (1911 – 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the "reject pile" at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.

Benjamin Myers (introduction) is an award-winning author and journalist, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism. His novels have been translated into thirteen languages. He is the author of Rare Singles, Cuddy, The Gallows Pole, The Offing and many more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143138812
• ISBN 13: 9780143138815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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