The Spire
1964 novel by William Golding / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Spire (disambiguation).
The Spire is a 1964 novel by English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of a 404-foot-high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral,[2] the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In the novel, Golding utilises stream-of-consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator to show Jocelin's demise as he chooses to follow his own will as opposed to the will of God.[3]
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Author | William Golding |
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Cover artist | John Piper[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | December 1964 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 223 (hardback edition) |
OCLC | 67489424 |
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