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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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ISBN13: 9780399501487 |
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"Beyond the many biblical allusions and its searing parable of the folly of being human, Lord of the Flies is simply a cracking good adventure story....While the prose remains fresh and furious, with a nearly breakneck pace that sends the reader hurtling through its pages, Golding's theme of society's defects stemming from the nature of mankind is nothing less than timeless." Chris Bolton, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of grown-ups. Soon though, as the boys' fragile sense of order begins to collapse, their fears start to take on a sinister, primitive significance. Suddenly, the world of cricket, homework and adventure stories seems a long way away. The boys are faced with a more pressing reality — survival — and the appearance of a terrifying beast who haunts their dreams.
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"The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." Time
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"Lord of the Flies [is my selection for The Book That Changed My Life] because it is both a story with a message and because it is a great tale of adventure. My advice about reading is to do a lot of it." Stephen King, for the National Book Foundation, The Book That Changed My Life
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"[T]his brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must apprach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is." The New York Times Book Review
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"Like any orthodox moralist Golding insists that Man is a fallen creature, but he refuses to hypostatize Evil or to locate it in a dimension of its own. On the contrary Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, is Roger and Jack and you and I, ready to declare himself as soon as we permit him to." John Peter, Kenyon Review
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"[S]parely and elegantly written....Lord of the Flies is a grim anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance, violence, and warfare." Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
Synopsis:
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
Synopsis:
William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them — the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories — and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.
About the Author
Born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University, William Gerald Golding's first book, Poems, was published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote Lord of the Flies while teaching school. This was the first of several novels including Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and The Inheritors and a play, The Brass Butterfly, which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
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Lonerwor, July 27, 2007 (view all comments by Lonerwor)
The first time I read this novel, I was extremely disturbed by the plot, but the more I read it, the more I got into it. It is a frightening allegory of innocence seduced by the sinster power of nature, and how it can turn you into something dangerous, and unexpected.
I could see myself reading it again, and again, and I would definitely recommend it to people who keep searching for something to believe in.
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waitingtoleave, February 9, 2007 (view all comments by waitingtoleave)
When I read this in my high school English class, my best friend and I were convinced "Lord of the Flies" was a religious metaphor, and everyone else thought we were crazy, until the teacher sided with us. I cannot emphasize how helpful it can be to read Messiah stories to question your own faith; this can be a chance to test your own beliefs, or if you aren't Christian, a great look at how Christianity uses themes that translate to great storytelling. The Bible is the most popular book of all time, you know!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780399501487
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Berkley Publishing Group
- Notes:
Epstein, E. L.
- Author:
- Location:
- New York, N.Y. :
- Subject:
- Boys
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Novels and novellas
- Subject:
- Ethics
- Subject:
- British and irish
- Subject:
- Adventure stories
- Subject:
- Americans
- Subject:
- Human relations
- Subject:
- Islands
- Subject:
- Moral conditions
- Subject:
- Allegories
- Subject:
- Castaways
- Subject:
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
- Subject:
- Ethics -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Moral conditions -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Bildungsromane.
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Edition Number:
- 1st Premium ed.
- Publication Date:
- July 1959
- Binding:
- Mass Market Paperbound
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 7.26x4.80x.49 in. .27 lbs.
