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LORD OF THE FLIES

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This dystopian classic is "exciting, relevant and thought-provoking" (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and now! A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into a murderous hunt ...

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

"The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, "This is not just entertainment; it's life or death." ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more." ~ Stephen King

"One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years." ~ Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

"Thrills me with all the power a fiction can have ... Exemplary." ~ Ian McEwan

"An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare." ~ Ben Okri

"Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance." ~ Marlon James

"Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary." ~ Stevie Smith

"Beautifully written, tragic and provocative." ~ E. M. Forster

Before becoming a writer, William Golding (1911 - 1993) was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.


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Автор W.Golding
Страници 288
Корица мека
Език английски
Година 2022
Дата на получаване 15.10.2022 г.
Издателство Faber and Faber
ID на книга 27227172
ISBN 9780571371723
Категории Трилъри и криминални романи
Книги на английски език
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