Book · 1954 · Fiction

Lord of the Flies

Name: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding

Viking Penguin (Penguin Random House) · 192 pages

★ 7.8 editorial score

English schoolboys are marooned on an island without adults, hold a vote, and are soon hunting each other. Golding tells it so plainly that you believe every step of the descent.

Genre

Allegory Adventure Dystopian fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Civilization Individual vs. society Human nature

Setting

Island

Time

1954Depicts 1950s

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