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Pincher Martin (published in America as Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin) is a novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956. It is Golding's third novel, following The Inheritors and his debut Lord of the Flies.
- William Golding
- 1956
Pincher Martin is a novel by British author William Golding, first published in 1956. Set during World War II, it tells the story of a Royal Navy lieutenant named Christopher Hadley Martin who washes up on an inhospitable islet after his ship sinks.
Pincher Martin. William Golding. 3.56. 2,383 ratings225 reviews. The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation.
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A lieutenant stranded on a mysterious rock in the North Atlantic faces his own madness and fate. Pincher Martin is a psychological thriller by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies.
A British navy officer is blown off his ship by a German torpedo and must try to survive alone on a small, rocky island in the North Atlantic.
Sep 12, 2022 · A 1956 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies. Pincher Martin is a shipwrecked sailor who struggles to survive on a remote island.
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The guilt-filled reflections of a naval officer, his ship torpedoed, who faces an agonizing death are the subject of Pincher Martin (1956). Two other novels, Free Fall (1959) and The Spire (1964), also demonstrate Golding’s belief that “man produces evil as a bee produces honey.”.
