Description
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a prescribed novel for South African English Literature learners — a powerful and unsettling classic first published in 1954.
A plane crashes on an uninhabited 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.
Golding gives the traditional adventure story an ironic, devastating twist. The boys' delicate sense of order fades, their childish fears transform into something deeper and more primitive, and before long the well-behaved party of schoolboys has turned into a tribe of faceless, murderous savages.
Now recognised as one of the most celebrated modern novels of the 20th century.
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber
ISBN: 9780571242498