Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The dystopian classic - which has sold over 25 million copies - introduced by Stephen King. Such a strong statement about the human heart.' Patricia Cornwell 'Terrifying and haunting.' Kingsley Amis What readers are saying: 'Every real human being should read this ...
'An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare' - Ben Okri
'Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance.' - Marlon James
'Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary.' - Stevie Smith
'A fragment of nightmare.' - New Statesman
'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' - Guardian
'Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance.' - Marlon James
'Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary.' - Stevie Smith
'A fragment of nightmare.' - New Statesman
'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' - Guardian
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's first novel, was turned down by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571371723 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571371728 |
| Title | Lord of the Flies |
| Author | William Golding |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2022-01-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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