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110th anniversary commemorative edition of William Golding, Nobel Prize winner for literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". A monster spire that can never be completed, an obsessive and confusing sacred dream, a masterpiece of philosophical fiction where absurdity and reality intersect. "The Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, which deeply explores the intricate mixture of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. The novel tells the story of Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary who truly felt the call of the Lord, asking him to build a church steeple as high as four hundred feet for the glory of the Lord. He naively believed that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reached heaven on the ground. This grand construction without a foundation ended in failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

This is the 110th anniversary edition of Nobel Prize winner William Golding's collected works. Golding's controversial semi-autobiographical novel explores the pain of growing up in a sonata-like structure. "The Pyramid" is a highly controversial and important work by Golding, and its interpretation and evaluation have always been divided. It changes Golding's famous allegorical style and is regarded as a semi-autobiographical novel that reflects the pain of growing up. It deeply explores how love is possible in a dark human nature and world. In the author's opinion, a child's retina is a perfect video recorder that can leave an indelible impression as long as it is given interesting or exciting stimuli. Based on this impression, the novel is divided into three parts, which respectively intercept three fragments of the protagonist Oliver's life: the summer when he was eighteen years old, the first vacation at Oxford University, and the revisit to the old place when he was forty-five years old. The structure of the novel is modeled after Beethoven's sonata, which is extremely artistic and profound; and the theme that shines brightly on the spire of the pyramid built by Golding is "love": if the heart has love, it will live, if there is no love, it will die.

A collection of masterpieces by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize, the master of fables in contemporary British literature. It is highly recommended by Stephen King and Luo Xiang. It is a must-read classic literature in the post-epidemic era and an immortal masterpiece that has influenced generations of people. Golding's charming allegorical novel style reveals the master's representative symbolism, formal symmetry and philosophical exploration; the intersection of absurdity and reality, the struggle between light and darkness, tearing apart the fragility of civilization, confronting the evil of human nature, inspiring a large number of literary and artistic works, and the creative source of future generations of practitioners. The inspiration for the movie "A Good Show" and the literary projection of "Battle Royale". A collection of masterpieces by William Golding, the great British novelist of the 20th century. With a genius-like writing structure, Golding leads readers to mourn the lost harmony and unresolved chaos, profoundly revealing the cruel truth of human nature and society, transcending life and death, and questioning good and evil. This set contains a total of five volumes of "Lord of the Flies", "Church Spire", "Pyramid", "Dark Revealed" and "Pincher Martin".

"Lord of the Flies" is an important masterpiece by William Golding. It is a famous philosophical novel that uses the innocence of children to explore the serious theme of human evil. The story takes place during the imaginary World War III. A group of children between the ages of six and twelve were stranded on a desert island due to a plane crash during the retreat. At first they could live in harmony, but later due to the expansion of their evil nature, they killed each other, with tragic results. The author makes abstract philosophical propositions concrete and allows readers to understand them through fascinating stories and exciting battle scenes. The characters, scenes, stories, images, etc. Are all deeply symbolic. It is recognized as one of the greatest literary masterpieces of the 20th century.