The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Epstein, the publisher of the first American paperback edition of Lord of the Flies. Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizewinning British author William Golding. Forster, an essay on teaching and reading the novel and suggestions for further exploration by scholar Jennifer Buehler, and an extended note by E. This Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition features an array of special features to supplement the novel, including a foreword by Lois Lowry, an introduction by Stephen King, an essay by E. But above all, it has earned its place as one of the indisputable classics of the twentieth century for readers of any age.
William Golding\047s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse.
William Golding\047s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
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