" Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. 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. 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. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. 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.
"This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge.
"I finished the last half of Lord of the Flies in a single afternoon, my eyes wide, my heart pounding, not thinking, just inhaling.My rule of thumb as a writer and reader-largely formed by Lord of the Flies-is feel it first, think about it later."
Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games trilogy
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