"[The Inheritors is] a prose quite astounding in its poetic clarity...the most astonishing and original tour de force I have seen since I first reviewed a novel. Mr Golding is a genius."
— William Golding

January 1, 1970

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Peter Green, review of The Inheritors in The Daily Telegraph (1955), quoted in John Carey, William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies (2009; 2010 ed.), p. 185