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The Double Tongue

The Double Tongue

With an introduction by Meg Rosoff

by William Golding
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 04/04/2013

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As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent sixty years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts have embodied, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster.

This extraordinary short novel was left in draft at Golding's sudden death in 1993 but it is a psychological and historical triumph.
ISBN:
9780571298532
9780571298532
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-04-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x15mm
Weight:
0.18kg
William Golding

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford.

His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

He was knighted in 1988. He died in 1993.

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