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Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad. Golding's aim to "trace the defect of society back to the defect of human nature" is elegantly pursued in this gripping adventure tale about a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island. Alone in a world of uncharted possibilities, devoid of adult supervision or rules, the boys attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin, and evil. Part parable, allegory, myth, parody, political treatise, and apocalyptic vision, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most memorable tale about "the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart."
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fiction, relationships, adventure, morality, survival, childhood, children, boys, ethics, castaway, shipwreck, regression, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Literature and fiction (general), English literature, Death, thriller, Interpersonal relations, Islands, Castaways, Good and evil, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Leadership, Regression (Psychology), Interpersonal relations in children, Zhang pian xiao shuo, Moral conditions, Golding, william, 1911-1993, English literature, outlines, syllabi, etc., History and criticism, Airplane crash survival, Allegories, Psychological fiction, Shipwreck survivalPlaces
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Lord of the flies
2001, Penguin Books
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Lord of the Flies
1997, Riverhead Books
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Originally published: Penguin, New York, c1954.
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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.
The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Time also included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, a 2016 UK poll saw Lord of the Flies ranked third in the nation's favourite books from school.
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