June 2012 Guest Editor Joanne Harris on Lord of the Flies...
I first read this when I was ten. It terrified and fascinated me. It still does.
The Lovereading view...
William Golding’s iconic and enduring novel is interesting in many ways. Firstly it was a debut book and secondly it was rejected by numerous publishers and editors before it was picked up off the ‘slush-pile’ by a young editor at Faber and Faber.
More than 50 years later the schoolboys to savages story is still a relevant, disturbing and shocking comment on the human condition.
| Primary Genre | Dystopian and utopian fiction |
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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics.
Lord of the Flies features in the following genres: Dystopian and utopian fiction, Young Adult Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Speculative fiction, Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations, General Fiction
Lord of the Flies is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback, CD-Audio
Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding and published by Faber and Faber
Lord of the Flies has 225 pages
£8.99
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