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¶ At Jebel Tubeiq in the Jordanian desert, Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about...
Wilson, whose best-known novels are Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and the recently published The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, singled out the experimental novelist, William Golding, for special praise, calling his The Lord of the Flies the best British novel published since the end of World War II.
William Golding, English novelist, writes like a French existentialist who has wandered into the Manhattan offices of True magazine. The French practitioners of the art of "the extreme situation" lean to plagues (Albert Camus) or politics and perversion (Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of...
At first the book reads like a suspense tale of survival, told with a sort of totalitarian recall-minute details of rocks, water, limpets, seaweed are forced on the reader, until Lieut. Martin's every movement is seen as in a microscope of time. Swiftly, the novel makes clear...
This box lunch may not be everyone's dish, but it is at least something to see a British writer indulging in overstatement. Says Author Golding's victim, as his innards are slowly being poisoned by his diet of limpets: "I am in servitude to a coiled tube...