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"William Golding's magical fable draws us with seductive words into a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes ... Many novelists now write fables, allegories, fantasies, extravaganzas. Golding, though, is all by himself. " This is a comment on this author's capacity as a writer. Another is that he writes "a short, brillant novel in the tradition. [His] revelation of character through narrative style, its easy manipulation of natural symbols, its formal elegance, and its bold dramatization of the grandest and most persistent of all themes of western fiction - illusion and reality - place it in a direct line with Henry James, Melville, and Conrad." Of another a reviewer wrote:- "This book has one major flaw: too short -- only 200 pages of intelligence, wit, originality, sculptured prose ... "Read More