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Lord of the Flies
This excellent site provides GCSE students with a number of study points for The Lord of the Flies. This web site contains descriptions of the main characters, summaries of the chapters and notes on themes and symbolism in The Lord of the Flies. Most imaginatively there is also a 3-dimensional rendering of the island.

The Nobel Lecture
William Golding's 1983 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature in which the author addresses the question of his having been labelled a pessimist, the role of the novel in the arts and the state of the English language.

Nobel presentation speech
The Nobel Foundation's press release for The Nobel Prize for Literature 1983. An examination of Golding's life and work and the central role of the Second World War to his world view.

An Overview of William Golding
This site contains a brief biography and a couple of short but accurate essays examining Golding's literary style and the themes that run throughout his novels. It also contains a few reviews of Golding's novels by critics such as Kenneth Tynan.