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The Inheritors - William Golding
The Inheritors
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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... show more
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, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780156443791 (0156443791)
ASIN: 156443791
Publisher: Harvest Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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Farnaz
Farnaz rated it
5.0 The Inheritors
I couldn't put down this book (well, e-reader, anyway :D )! the novel is about Neanderthals and the dawning new men, Homo Sapiens, their interactions. The genre is allegorical SF novel. 5 of 5!
Exploring by Starlight
Exploring by Starlight rated it
0.0 The Inheritors
DNFI did nothing but struggle with this. I had no idea of what was going on or who anybody was and it would take me nearly a full day to get through a single chapter.
Warwick
Warwick rated it
The Inheritors is a rare attempt to portray the human race from the outside looking in: told from the point of view of a group of Neanderthals having their first, fatal, encounter with this new and dangerously clever species.As a palaeontological study this book may not be strictly accurate or even ...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
3.0 The Inheritors
I don't know what made me think a novel by the guy who wrote 'Lord of the Flies' wouldn't be depressing.'The Inheritors' is about a small tribe of Neanderthals, and their devastating encounter with a group of homo sapiens. It was hard to get into at first, because the narrator was a rather dim membe...
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