Free Fall

"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.

Literature & Fiction

Golding, Sir William

Classics

Houghton/Mifflin

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The Inheritors

World Literature

Kessinger Publishing

A special edition of this classic literary parable, with the 1962 introduction by E.M. Forster, critical notes by E.L. Epstein, and selected highlights from five decades of critical analysis.

Lord of the Flies

Turtleback Books

When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is magnificient... like a fragment of nightmare... a dizzy climax of terror... the terrible spell of this book..." E.M. Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year. "Time and Tide" touched upon perhaps the most important facet of this book when it said, "It is not only a first-rate adventure but a parable of our times, " and articles on this and subsequent Golding novels have stressed these twin aspects of Golding: a consummate control of the novel form, and a superb all-encompassing vision of reality which communicates itself with a power reminiscent of Conrad.

PUTNAM

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island. 
 This book has grown to be studied in schools across the country. It has won several prestigious awards, including a Nobel Prize in Literature. 
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Literary

The Inheritors (Kessinger Legacy Reprints)

The Inheritors: Introduced by Ben Okri

This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

Literary Licensing, LLC

This is a famous and popular novel that has been reprinted many times. It has also been made into two feature length movies, the first in 1963 and the next in 1990 and there is another movie in production. It has also been made into at least six short episodes for TV. A British plane crashes on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are boys in their middle childhood or preadolescence. Now they must work together to survive, or they will fight each other.

Lord of the Flies - Large Print Edition

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Ishi Press

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Free Fall

The Inheritors

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

The Inheritors

The Inheritors

The Inheritors (Kessinger Legacy Reprints)

The Inheritors

Lord of the Flies - Large Print Edition