Other editions of book Lord of the Flies

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 by William Golding, Capricorn Books, 1959, Sixty-Sixth Impression. This is a Collectible, Paperback Book. "There is sheer delight in this adventure of well-brought-up little boys who find themselves on a deserted island and there is horror in its most frightening form when they fall prey to the pressure of raw nature. Imagination combines with realism as innocence gives way to cunning and primitive violence. In this, his first novel, William Golding writes with the compelling power that marks true literary achievement." This book contributed to William Golding winning the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. A Very Compelling Read!

The adage says that there are two sides to every story, but as most contemporary literature teachers can attest, there are many sides to every story-or at least many ways of looking at a story. Prestwick House's Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides provide the high school teacher with everything she needs to guide her students through the study of the titles she teaches from a variety of critical viewpoints. Every Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guide provides a general introduction to the work (plot summary, introductions to key characters, brief discussions of social and historical background); clear and concise explanations of three critical theories (including feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, new historicism, and formalism); and reading, writing, and discussion activities designed to help students probe the familiar text in new and deeper ways. Teachers who want to take their teaching of literature beyond the tired plot pyramid and want their students to experience the books they love more than reader-response alone will let them, will find Prestwick House Multiple Perspectives Lessons Guides to be an invigorating addition to their course syllabus.

When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is magnificient... like a fragment of nightmare... a dizzy climax of terror... the terrible spell of this book..." E.M. Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year. "Time and Tide" touched upon perhaps the most important facet of this book when it said, "It is not only a first-rate adventure but a parable of our times, " and articles on this and subsequent Golding novels have stressed these twin aspects of Golding: a consummate control of the novel form, and a superb all-encompassing vision of reality which communicates itself with a power reminiscent of Conrad.

First published in 1954, LORD OF THE FLIES has been translated into every major language: in English alone, it has sold over 25 million copies. Among the most influential books of the 20th century, it is both a gripping thriller and a parable about the thin crust of civilization beneath which, dark and primivite, the human soul ever seeks means to burst through. . . . This 2008 Folio Society edition includes a preface by award-winning novelist, Ian McEwan, and superb illustrations by Sam Weber that capture the novel's never to be forgotton, iconically imaged events which Golding packs with narrative and psychological resonance--the conch shell that bestows power, the dead would-be rescuer and parachutist who is tremulously and silently impaled on tree branches, the butchered pig's head that speaks chillingly in Simon's mind until, in fright and hallucination, he blacks out and drops to the ground. . . . A great novel superbly book-crafted by London's Folio Society.