Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show
Lord of the Flies author's memoir describes how attempted attack happened while he was on holiday during studies at Oxford university
I loved Lord of the Flies but it makes it weird now.
Lord of the Flies author's memoir describes how attempted attack happened while he was on holiday during studies at Oxford university
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/au … mpted-rapeThe Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers that he had tried to rape a 15-year-old girl during his teenage years, it emerged today.
Golding's papers also described how he had experimented, while a teacher at a public school, with setting boys against one another in the manner of Lord of the Flies, which tells the story of young air crash survivors on a desert island during a nuclear war.
I loved Lord of the Flies but it makes it weird now.


