The double tongue

William Golding

Original title: Double Tongue, the

earliest edition we have, 1995 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995 165 pages

"As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent sixty years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. He...

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Editions we hold

Double Tongue edition · 2022 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571371686
Double Tongue edition · 2013 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 176 pages · 9780571299546
The Double Tongue / Dvojnoj jazyk paperback · 2004 · ACT · 235 pages · 9785170215003
The Double Tongue: With an introduction by Meg Rosoff paperback · 2001 · Faber & Faber · 9780571298532
The Double Tongue edition · 1999 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 165 pages · 9780374526375
Double Tongue, the hardcover · 1996 · Faber & Faber · 160 pages · 9780571177202
The double tongue edition · 1996 · ISIS · 167 pages
The Double Tongue paperback · 1996 · Gardners Books · 160 pages · 9780571178032
Double Tongue edition · 1995 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571177042
The double tongue edition · 1995 · Faber and Faber · 165 pages
Double Tongue edition · 1995 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571177035
The double tongue edition · 1995 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 165 pages

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