He was laughing, chin up, and shaking his head.
An edition of The Spire
(1964)
The spire.
[1st American ed.]
by William Golding
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Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, this is a story of obsession. Against the advice of his builder, the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, slowly dying from tuberculosis, plans the construction of a towering spire atop the cathedral as the culmination of his life’s work but becomes increasingly deranged as the construction faces constant problems due to the sheer grandiosity of the work.
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Fiction, Design and construction, Cathedrals, Middle Ages, Fiction in English, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, religious, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, English literaturePlaces
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Spire
July 1996, Faber Faber Inc
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in Spanish
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0571064922 9780571064922
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The spire: a novel
1971, Faber and Faber Ltd
in English
- Educational ed / with an introduction and notes by David B. Gray.
0571093299 9780571093298
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