by William Golding · Penguin Books · audioCD · ISBN 9780141800967
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«Lord of the Flies» is the novel by William Golding as an audiobook, published by Penguin Books on CD (3 discs, in English).
A group of British schoolboys survives a plane crash and is left stranded on a desert island. The boys try to organize themselves, find food and keep a fire going, but their coexistence breaks down when Jack, the hunter, challenges Ralph's leadership. The novel explores the collapse of social norms and the descent from civilization to barbarism.
Abridged edition, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. The novel was originally published in 1954.
Suitable for school reading and for listeners who prefer classics of English literature in audio format.
Sir William Gerald Golding 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.
