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The Inheritors
The Inheritors
Author: William Golding
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, ...  more »
ISBN: 120437
Publication Date: 1970
Pages: 213
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Publisher: Pocket Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Hardly one of my favorite authors, I somehow get drawn masochistically to his novels. This real piece of work is about evolution of man in the stone age. I found his geographic descriptions extremely difficult to follow, not to mention the absurd story line. But that's me. Will I ever learn to leave this dude to the sophists?


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