by William Golding · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780399501487
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«Lord of the Flies» is the classic novel by William Golding, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (224 pages, in English).
After a plane crash during a war, a group of British schoolboys is stranded on a deserted island. With no adults, freedom is initially an adventure, but coexistence breaks down and the struggle for power leads to violence. The novel explores the collapse of social order and human nature.
Novel originally published in 1954. This edition includes an epilogue by Lois Lowry and additional reading suggestions by Jennifer Buehler.
Common reading in schools and a classic of young adult and dystopian literature; invites young people and adults to reflect on society.
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
