FEATURED WORK
THE BRASS BUTTERFLY
CLOSE QUARTERS
DARKNESS VISIBLE
THE DOUBLE TONGUE
AN EGYPTIAN JOURNAL
FIRE DOWN BELOW
FREE FALL
THE HOT GATES
THE INHERITORS
LORD OF THE FLIES
A MOVING TARGET
THE PAPER MEN
PINCHER MARTIN
POEMS
THE PYRAMID
RITES OF PASSAGE
THE SCORPION GOD
THE SPIRE
A SEA TRILOGY
Works :: FREE FALL
 

 
Considered by some to be one of Golding's best, this book needs to be read more than once. Through its narrator's search for the point at which he lost his freedom -by implication, the freedom to be good - the novel strikes the reader most forcibly in its terrible demonstration of how we are born to hurt each other - and ourselves. A love story in which hate and cruelty play their parts, the narrative cycles back and forth through time in a series of spell-binding, concretely imagined episodes. "People are the walls of our room, not philosophies."

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