No parents. No teachers. No rules. No mercy! Hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest English-language novels of all time
Lord of the Flies is a classic 1954 novel by William Golding about a group of British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash, who descend into savagery as they try to govern themselves, leading to violence and the loss of innocence. The story explores the conflict between civilization and savagery, the darkness within human nature, and the breakdown of order as fear of a mythical “beast” takes hold, culminating in the death of the voice of reason, Piggy, and the near-death of the leader, Ralph, before their rescue.
Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) 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.
