Lord of the Flies
First novel by the Nobel-prize winning author. A dark, cautionary tale about a group of school boys marooned together on a deserted island after a plane crash. At first seeming to band together, their social order starts to collapse, and the boys begin to regress into savagery, which leads to tragic, unforgettable consequences.
Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, half cloth with patterned paper-covered boards. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. #10624.
Traces of rubbing to board edges with one slightly bumped corner and minor discoloring. Binding is straight and tight. Dust jacket has slight discoloring on spine and some toning, with some shelf wear to extremities mostly, and couple short closed tears. Overall, a very pleasing copy, very good+ to near fine in dust jacket.
Lord of the Flies is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding, first published in 1954. It tells the story of a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island after their plane crashes during a wartime evacuation. Initially, the boys attempt to form a civilized society with rules and roles, but as order collapses and fear takes hold, their paradise quickly devolves into a chaotic and savage battleground. Through the experiences of the boys, Golding delves into the inherent nature of human beings, illustrating the conflict between the instincts for civilization and the drive towards savagery. The novel serves as a powerful allegory for the darker aspects of human nature and society's propensity for violence and anarchy in the absence of societal structures and morals. Lord of the Flies is widely studied in literature curriculums and remains a significant work in the canon of modern literature.
Lord of the Flies has been adapted twice for film, a 1963 black-and-white British version directed by Peter Brook, and a 1990 American adaptation, directed by Harry Hook, which offered a modernized take with the stranded boys portrayed as cadets from a military academy. Beyond these film versions, Golding's classic work has found its way into various other media, including stage productions, radio dramatizations, and television adaptations.