Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.
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About William Golding
William Golding was a 20th-century British novelist, poet, and playwright. Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it