"The Spire" 1964 GOLDING, William

GOLDING, William

[223] pp.

Faber and Faber

1964

7 1/2" x 5 1/4"

Jacket design by John Piper

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, 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.

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