Dec 22, 2009

The Double Tongue | The Double Tongue

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Author: William Golding
First Published: 1995
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The first century
Setting: Greece
Principal Characters: Arieka, Ionides Peisistratides, Demetrios, Leptides, Julius Caesar, Crates of Corinth, Lucius Galba, Perseus
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
Subjects: Girls, Mythology or myths, Politics, Marriage, Religion, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Oracles
Locales: Greece

For The Double Tongue, which was published two years after his death, Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding looked almost 2,000 years into the past to tell a thoughtful story of one of the Pythias, or women responsible for relaying the answers of Apollo’s oracle at the Greek city of Delphi. William Golding’s fame rests with his haunting novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), in which a group of stranded schoolboys establishes a brutal regime on the South Sea island where they survive without any adults. In The Double Tongue, Golding creates for the first...

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The Double Tongue | The Double Tongue

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