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"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle... read more

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I have walked by stalls in the market-place where books, dog-eared and faded from their purple, have burst with a white hosanna.

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  1. William Golding (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1959
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Page Count: 253

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  • Library of Congress: PZ4.G63 Fr2 PR6013.O35
  • Dewey: 823.914

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