The Double Tongue

The Double Tongue

by William Golding
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 21/03/2013

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With an introduction by Meg Rosoff

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her belief in him seem to move in parallel with the decline of the god himself - but things are more complicated than they appear.

'A remarkable work ... A compelling storyteller as well as a clear-eyed philosopher of the dangerous puzzles of being human.' The Times


'A wonderful central character. The story stretches out as clean and dry and clear as the beach in Lord of the Flies.' Independent

'Feline, deadpan and at moments hilarious.' Observer

ISBN:
9780571299546
9780571299546
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
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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