by William Golding · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571084838
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«Lord of the Flies» is the novel by William Golding, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (223 pages, in English).
A group of British schoolboys survive a plane crash and are left stranded on a deserted island in the middle of a war. With no adult supervision, the boys try to organise themselves and create their own society, but coexistence soon descends into power struggles, fear and violence. The novel explores the fragility of civilisation and the darkness of human nature through the loss of innocence.
William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as stated on the cover. The work was originally published in 1954.
A common read in schools and a gateway to the classics for young adult and adult readers.
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.
