Em “O senhor das moscas” (1954), primeiro e mais conhecido romance de William Golding, trinta meninos são os únicos a se salvar de um naufrágio em que morrem todos os adultos. Enquanto tratam de sobreviver nessas...
Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He...
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones....