num_pages: 224
description: Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is Golding's funniest and most light-hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, and all the tragedy and farce of life in a small community
language: English
title: The Pyramid
titlecomplete: The Pyramid
genres: 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Novels, Literature, Roman, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 953
places: England
publisher: Gardners Books