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Lord of the Flies
Introduced by Stephen King
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Lord of the Flies
This dystopian classic is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?
This dystopian classic is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?
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ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'
'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.' - Stephen King
'One of my favourite books - I read it every couple of years.' - Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and now!
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into a murderous hunt ...
'Thrills me with all the power a fiction can have ... Exemplary.' - Ian McEwan
'Beautifully written, tragic and provocative.' - E. M. Forster
'Stands out mightily in my memory ... Such a strong statement about the human heart.' - Patricia Cornwell
'Terrifying and haunting.' - Kingsley Amis
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Reviews acclaim Lord of the Flies as a powerful and haunting existential fable, marked by its intense and apocalyptic themes. Critics highlight its vivid realism and the profound humanist rage embedded within. The novel is described as both beautifully desperate and a unique fragment of nightmare, earning its status as a timeless cult classic.
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ISBN: 9780571371723
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 January 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Introduction by Stephen King
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 215g
Pages: 256
About the Author
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk
Stephen King (1947 - ) was born in Portland, Maine. He began writing in the 1960s and 1970s while working as an English teacher, King is now the award-winning author of more than fifty books, all worldwide bestsellers, including Carrie and The Shining. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the
2014 National Medal of Arts.
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