TY  - BOOK
AU  - Golding, William
TI  - The spire
SN  - 0571192572
U1  - 823.914 
PY  - 1964///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  - English literature- Fiction
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Cathedrals--Design and construction
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Visions
N2  - Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.

From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates
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