The double tongue
Golding, William, 1911-19932022
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The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world.
Main title:
The double tongue / William Golding ; with a foreword by Bettany Hughes.
Author:
Golding, William, 1911-1993, authorHughes, Bettany, author of introduction, etc
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2022.©1995
Collation:
198 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Awards:
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
ISBN:
9780571371686 (pbk)9780571371686 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
722667
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction Paperback | General G | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | GOLD | Available |