Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Title:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Condition:

Good. Stamps and writing in pen on first page.

Description:

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the controversial subjects of human nature & individual welfare versus the commonweal earned it position 70 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged Books of 19902000. The novel was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Tho it was not a success at the timeselling fewer than three thousand copies in the USA during 1955 before going out of printit soon went on to become a bestseller. By the early 1960s it was required reading in many schools & colleges. It was adapted to film in 1963 by Peter Brook & in 1990 by Harry Hook.

The title is said to be a reference to the Hebrew name Beelzebub ( , Ba'al-zvuv, "god of the fly", "host of the fly", lit. "Lord of Flies"), a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan.

Format:

288 pages, Paperback

Published:

January 1, 1962 by Faber and Faber

ISBN:

9780571056866 (ISBN10: 0571056865)

ASIN:

0571056865

Language:

English