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Free Fall

Free Fall
William Golding

Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959. Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War II.

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“The Herr Doctor does not know about peoples.”

William Golding book Free Fall

Free Fall (1959), last line

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