Goldings "The Inheritors" was originally published in 1955, and was his first book after "Lord of the Flies" made his name.
"The Inheritors" is a difficult novel and that is why it is being studied at Higher. ... What Golding is trying to do in the novel is to create the world of 50,000 years ago. ... This is a problem for Golding who has to use the language we use today to mirror the language of the past.
Golding imagines the time when Neanderthal man (one of our distant more primitive ancestors) meets another very different Homo sapiens (a more intelligent branch of mankind).
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