by William Golding · Faber and Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571191475
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«Lord of the Flies» is the novel by William Golding, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (240 pages, in English).
A group of British schoolboys survive a plane crash and are left stranded on a deserted island. What begins as an attempt to organize themselves to be rescued descends into a struggle for power, fear of an imaginary beast and a spiral of violence that dismantles their fragile civilization. The novel explores human nature, the conflict between civilization and savagery and the loss of innocence.
First novel by William Golding, originally published in 1954. Faber and Faber released this edition in 1997. The Nobel Prize in Literature is highlighted on the cover.
For readers looking for a modern classic of English literature and an allegory about the human condition, with a reading that works for both young people and adults.
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.
