William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at
Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before
he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat
sailor and a musician. A now rare volume, i>Poems, appeared in
1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against
battleships, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking
of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of
a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-day
invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. After the war he
returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there
when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He
gave up teaching in 1961.
Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed
his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical
Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in
his essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target. He won the
Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in
1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993. The Double Tongue,
a novel left in draft at his death, was published in June 1995.
Gr 10 Up‘A solid tool for the study of William Golding's classic novel. Sixteen critical selections from both journals and books are arranged in chronological order by date of publication from 1961 to 1993. The examined topics, length and completeness of entries, and depth of analysis present a wide range of material. Articles selected by Bloom have not previously appeared in works easily accessible to most readers. There is little duplication with "Contemporary Literary Criticism" (Gale) or with "British Writers" (Scribners); both cover less ground. Clarice Swisher's Readings on Lord of the Flies (Greenhaven, 1997) includes two of the same critics, but Bloom's book has complete articles rather than excerpts. While some readers may struggle with these selections, the book is an excellent resource.‘Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA
Here is another 50th-anniversary hardcover reprint. This edition sports the full text, plus notes and critical analyses. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is now available in a newly remastered, re-released audiobook edition from Listening Library, performed by the author. This audio update of the classic YA novel about the struggles of a group of British schoolboys stranded on a desert island comes 48 years after the print version first appeared in 1954 and 26 years after Golding was first recorded reading the book. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
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