The Spire

By William Golding

Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Middle Ages, Fiction, Design and construction, Cathedrals, Fiction, religious, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, thrillers, general, English literature, Fiction, psychological, Fiction in English

Description: Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, this is a story of obsession. Against the advice of his builder, the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, slowly dying from tuberculosis, plans the construction of a towering spire atop the cathedral as the culmination of his life’s work but becomes increasingly deranged as the construction faces constant problems due to the sheer grandiosity of the work.