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Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime.
This overcounts Golding’s lifetime fiction by one. After Lord of the Flies, he published 11 more fiction volumes while alive, not 12.
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This sentence appears to count one too many lifetime fiction books.
Golding’s official website timeline shows these fiction works published during his lifetime after Lord of the Flies (1954): The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), The Spire (1964), The Pyramid (1967), The Scorpion God (1971), Darkness Visible (1979), Rites of Passage (1980), The Paper Men (1984), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989). That is 11 additional fiction volumes.
The same official timeline says Fire Down Below was "the last of Golding’s novels released in his lifetime" and that The Double Tongue was published posthumously in 1995, so it cannot be included among books published "in his lifetime."
A University of Exeter page on Golding likewise describes him as the author of twelve published novels total, plus a book of short stories. Taken together, these sources support 11 additional lifetime fiction volumes after Lord of the Flies, not 12.
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- About William Golding | Author of Lord of the Flies
The timeline lists Lord of the Flies (1954), The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), The Spire (1964), The Pyramid (1967), The Scorpion God (1971), Darkness Visible (1979), Rites of Passage (1980), The Paper Men (1984), Close Quarters (1987), Fire Down Below (1989) and says Fire Down Below was 'the last of Golding’s novels released in his lifetime'; it then says The Double Tongue was 'published posthumously' in 1995.
- William Golding | Centre for Literature and Archives | University of Exeter
Golding was the author of twelve published novels, a play, a book of short stories, two collections of essays, and a travel book.
this was only the first of six further novels that Golding completed before his death.
This overstates Golding’s later output. After Darkness Visible, he published four more novels in his lifetime and left The Double Tongue unfinished at his death.
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The sentence miscounts Golding’s post-1979 novels and also wrongly says they were all completed before his death.
Golding’s official timeline shows Darkness Visible in 1979, followed by Rites of Passage (1980), The Paper Men (1984), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989). The same official timeline says Fire Down Below was "the last of Golding’s novels released in his lifetime."
His next novel, The Double Tongue, was not published until 1995, after his death. Golding’s official page for The Double Tongue adds that he wrote a first and second draft in 1993 but "intended to write a third draft, but died before this could be completed."
So Darkness Visible was not the first of six later novels completed before his death. After it, Golding published four more novels while alive, and left The Double Tongue unfinished when he died.
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- About William Golding | Author of Lord of the Flies
1979: Darkness Visible is published... 1980: Rites of Passage... 1984: The Paper Men... 1987: Close Quarters... 1989: Fire Down Below, the final part of The Sea Trilogy is published, the last of Golding’s novels released in his lifetime... 1995: his final novel, The Double Tongue, is published posthumously.
- The Double Tongue | William Golding
Golding intended to write a third draft, but died before this could be completed.