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The Pyramid (1967) is a novel by the English author William Golding. Plot. It describes the experiences of growing up in the 1920s in a small market town in England of the narrator, Oliver. It tells three separate stories from his childhood, resolving them many years later.
Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety ...
Piramida. "Piramida" to subtelna, pełna urody opowieść o dojrzewaniu, pierwszej miłości i młodzieńczej inicjacji, buncie i cierpieniu, nadziei i gorzkiej wiedzy, która towarzyszy rozpoznawaniu siebie i świata i przekraczaniu progu dojrzałości.
Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment.
27 mar 2019 · In The Pyramid Golding produced a lightly autobiographical period-piece, a near-historical novel, in which rural Stillbourne emerges from the darkness and burns brightly in the landscape, minutely scrutinised by Golding’s eagle-eyed gaze.
20 lis 2017 · Reading The Pyramid. 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Golding’s sixth novel, The Pyramid. The Pyramid was Golding’s first attempt at realist fiction, and was something of a departure from his previously published books.
Internet Archive. Language. English. 3-217 pages 20 cm. "Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university.
