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The Inheritors

Sir William Golding

The Inheritors is a novel by William Golding that explores the conflict between two different groups of early humans, the Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens. The story follows the Neanderthal family of Lok, Fa, and their children as they live a simple life in the forest, hunting and gathering for foo...

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The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

It was described as a massive recommendation for listeners and praised as a magnificent novel, possibly the best of Golding's works.

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William Golding's novel The Inheritors, which I'm poised to learn is probably all completely wrong, but is an absolutely magnificent novel if you've never read any Golding books.

— Episode: 127. Neanderthals

Episode: 127. Neanderthals

It was described as a massive recommendation for listeners and praised as a magnificent novel, possibly the best of Golding's works.

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William Golding's novel The Inheritors, which I'm poised to learn is probably all completely wrong, but is an absolutely magnificent novel if you've never read any Golding books.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The podcast mentioned that "The Inheritors" by William Golding explores the idea of trolls as an embellishment of human interactions with Neanderthals.

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The idea of trolls as an embellishment on human interaction with Neanderthal has been explored extensively in fiction. William Golding the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies wrote about it in a novel cal...

— Episode: Actual Trolls: Not the Ones Online

Episode: Actual Trolls: Not the Ones Online

The podcast mentioned that "The Inheritors" by William Golding explores the idea of trolls as an embellishment of human interactions with Neanderthals.

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The idea of trolls as an embellishment on human interaction with Neanderthal has been explored extensively in fiction. William Golding the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies wrote about it in a novel called The Inheritors

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