He was laughing, chin up, and shaking his head.
An edition of The Spire
(1964)
The Spire
by William Golding
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The dean builds his cathedral spire higher and higher--an impossibility in stone--and, as it rises, its shadow falls darkly on the world below.
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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: With an Introduction by John Mullan
2013, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
0571312268 9780571312269
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Spire
July 1996, Faber Faber Inc
Hardcover
in Spanish
- New Impression edition
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The Spire
February 1991, American Education Publishing
Hardcover
in English
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Der Turm der Kathedrale: Roman
1983-11, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch
in German
- [1. Auflage]
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The spire: a novel
1971, Faber and Faber Ltd
in English
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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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