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Golding’s Sea Trilogy: I. Rites of Passage- Life in Doldrums
Dr. L.N. Seshagiri
Abstract:
Sir William Golding is one of the finest writers of the 20th Century post war British literary period. Born in September 1911, he produced 12 novels, television scripts, screenplays, plays, non-fiction and poems till he died in 1993. The novel The Double Tongue was posthumously published in 1995. Born to Alec Golding and Mildred, Golding started his literary career with the publication of Poems in 1934. After mixed success, his first novel Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 and made him earn the distinction of a serious writer. His five year stint in the Royal Navy gave him a life time experience, which would serve as the bedrock of his literary career. Besides Booker Prize in 1980, he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and was knighted in 1988.