The Inheritors

William Golding

earliest edition we have, 1963 Gallimard, 1968 paperback

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Golding’s follow-up to Lord of the Flies, this is an unusual novel about the last tribe of Neanderthals in Europe and their fatal encounter with a tribe of more advanced and infinitely more ruthless Humans.

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Editions we hold

Inheritors edition · 2021 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 256 pages · 9780571362325
Inheritors edition · 2015 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 256 pages · 9780571329090
Inheritors edition · 2012 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 240 pages · 9780571267484
Inheritors paperback · 2011 · Faber & Faber · 240 pages · 9780571273584
The Inheritors hardcover · 2010 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 234 pages · 9781166128128
The Inheritors paperback · 2007 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 232 pages · 9780548439852
The Inheritors paperback · 2005 · Faber & Faber · 240 pages · 9780571225477
The Inheritors paperback · 1997 · Faber and Faber · 240 pages · 9780571192588
Inheritors, the hardcover · 1996 · Faber & Faber · 233 pages · 9780571070022
Spadkobiercy edition · 1989 · Czytelnik · 201 pages · 9788307019345
Perilliset edition · 1985 · Weilin & Göös · 220 pages
Die erben edition · 1983 · Fischer · 9783596258253

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