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Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Contributor(s): Golding, William (Author)

ISBN: 0140283331 ISBN-13: 9780140283334
Publisher: Penguin Books

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1999
Annotation: Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad.

Golding's aim to "trace the defect of society back to the defect of human nature" is elegantly pursued in this gripping adventure tale about a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island. Alone in a world of uncharted possibilities, devoid of adult supervision or rules, the boys attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin, and evil. Part parable, allegory, myth, parody, political treatise, and apocalyptic vision, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most memorable tale about "the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart".

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 18-UP

Grade Level: 13-UP

Lexile Measure: 770(Not Available)

Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century

Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (0.45 lbs) 192 pages

Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
- Catalog Heading - Classics
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 744
Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.

William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them--the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories--and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.

Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.

Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years.
--Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954.
--Stephen King

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