"The way you have sounded the universal elements in this horror strikes me as masterly."
— William Golding

January 1, 1970

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Mary Renault to Golding after reading Lord of the Flies (1954), quoted in John Carey, William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies (2009; 2010 ed.), p. 165