The Inheritors

by William Golding

First published 1955 · 233 pages

About this book

Golding’s follow-up to Lord of the Flies, this is an unusual novel about the last tribe of Neanderthals in Europe and their fatal encounter with a tribe of more advanced and infinitely more ruthless Humans.

  • English Science fiction
  • Fiction
  • Neanderthals
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Origin
  • Human beings
  • Science fiction
  • English literature

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