AuthorWilliam Golding
NarratorWilliam Golding
Duration6h 50m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
Key StageKS4
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, find themselves stranded on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive, and their struggle to survive and impose order on the tropical island becomes more desperate.
Author: William Golding
Author William Golding
Narrator Tim Piggot-Smith
Duration 3h
Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, find themselves stranded on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive, and their struggle to survive and impose order on the...
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Author: William Golding
Author William Golding
Narrator Benedict Cumberbatch
Duration 6h 52m
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darke...
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Author: William Golding
Author William Golding
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 2m
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are tr...
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