FREE FALL

by William Golding

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Faber and Faber, 1959 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. 7500 copies printed. The author's fourth novel. According to Arthur T. Broes, FREE FALL 'is the most openly optimistic of Golding's novels, stating explicitly what he had earlier suggested only implicitly. Man is a flawed and imperfect vessel. Nevertheless there is a spiritual dimension to him and his universe ... - Harte and Riley eds , 200 Contemporary

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