Free Fall
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I have walked by stalls in the market-place where books, dog-eared and faded from their purple, have burst with a white hosanna.
I have walked by stalls in the market-place where books, dog-eared and faded from their purple, have burst with a white hosanna.
About this book
Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of free will 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'.
Themes & subjects
Fiction, generalFictionPrisoners of WarWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionGreat britain, fictionEnglish fiction
First published 1962Setting
GermanyWorld War1939-1945
About the author
William Golding
19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993
The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), which is consistently regarded as an effective and disturbing portrayal of the fragility of civilization. **Childhood and college years** Golding was born in Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His father, Alex, was a schoolmaster, while his mother, Mildred, was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement (the movement for women's right to vote). As a boy, his favorite authors included H. G. Wells (1866–1946), J…
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