The Lord of the Fliesby William Golding | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Adventure" |
| Pages: | 187 |
| Year of Publication: | 1954 |
| Notes: | Children are evacuated from Britain because of a nuclear war. One airplane crashes on an uninhabited island, and all the adults are killed. As the boys fashion their own society, their attempts at establishing a social order gradually devolve into savagery. COMMENTS — William Golding (1911-1993) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin, The Inheritors and Spire. |
| My Rating: | 5 |