by William Golding · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571056866
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«Lord of the Flies» is the allegorical novel by William Golding, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (264 pages, in English).
A group of British schoolboys is stranded on a desert island and tries to organize themselves. Soon, the attempt at self-government collapses and the wildest instincts surface, in an allegory about the fragility of civilization, social norms and human nature.
Educational edition with introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes. Originally published in 1954, it was Golding's first novel.
Intended for students and for those approaching this classic for the first time, with supporting material for reading.
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.
