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Salisbury Cathedral’s 404 foot spire was visible from Golding’s window at Bishop Wentworth’s School for Boys where he taught for twenty years.

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Transcending Allegory: William Golding’s “THE SPIRE” (part 1)

Allegory, the use of symbolic figures or actions to convey abstract, often moral, principles or ideas, can, in the hands of a skillful writer, add a layer of meaning to a narrative. But, how skilled t...