Árpád Göncz Nat Turner", John Ball's "In the Heat of the Night", Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds", Yasunari Kawabata's "The Lake", John Updike's "Rabbit Redux" and "Rabbit is Rich", and "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin", "The Spire" and "The Pyramid" and "Rites of Passage" by William Golding. His own works include both novels and dramas; "Men of God" (1974), "Sarusok" (1974), "Magyar Médeia" (1976), "Rácsok" (1979), "Találkozások" (1980) are among the most notable. He is also the author of "Encounters" (essays, 1980), "Homecoming and Shavings" (short stories, 1991), "Hungarian Medea" (play, 1979), "Iron Bars" (play, 1979), "Balance" (play, 1990). Göncz worked incredibly hard
The Spire the warnings of the master builder, Roger Mason. The cathedral has insufficient foundations to support a spire of the magnificence demanded by Jocelin, but he believes he has been chosen by God and given a vision to erect a great spire to exalt the town and to bring its people closer to God. As the novel progresses, Golding explores Jocelin's growing obsession with the completion of the spire, during which he is increasingly afflicted by pain in his spine (which the reader gradually comes to realise is the result of tuberculosis). Jocelin interprets the burning heat in his back as