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Author | William Golding |
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Cover artist | Anthony Gross |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel prehistoric fiction |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 1955 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 233 pp |
The Inheritors is a work of prehistoric fiction[1] and the second novel by the British author William Golding, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954). It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated Homo sapiens. It was published by Faber and Faber in 1955.