Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show
That certainly does grab one's attention, doesn't it? In the readers' heads they already have a vision of an aged Golding -- a Nobel Prize winner but also heavily dependent on drink -- forcing himself on a helpless youngster.
Of course, as you read further into the story you find out that he was also a teenager at the time, and that the girl eventually did have consensual sex with him a few years later. While it certainly doesn't excuse the fact that Golding tried to force himself onto the girl, it did make the story sound much more lewd than it actually is.
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