Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding.

The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their

disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality,

between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.

The novel, which was Golding's debut, was generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels,

reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003, it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's

The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between

1923 and 2005, and included it in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools,

especially in the English-speaking world, Lord of the Flies was ranked third in the nation's favourite books from

school in a 2016 UK poll.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys.

At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the

boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however,

in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror

begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable,

an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse,

Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

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