Lord of the Flies
Introduced by Stephen King
$21.25
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2022
Summary
ONE OF THE BBC’S ‘100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD’
“The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, ‘This is not just entertainment; it’s life or death.’ … I’ve been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.” - Stephen King
“One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.” - Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
What are we? Humans? Or animal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571371723 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571371728 |
| Author: | William Golding, Stephen King |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
‘An existential fable backlit with death’s incandescent glare.’ - Ben Okri
‘Violently real … An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance.’ - Marlon James
‘Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary.’ - Stevie Smith
‘A fragment of nightmare.’ - New Statesman
‘A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy … [A novel] for all time … A cult classic.’ - Guardian
About The Author
William Golding
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the ‘reject pile’ at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.
Stephen King (1947 - ) was born in Portland, Maine. He began writing in the 1960s and 1970s while working as an English teacher, King is now the award-winning author of more than fifty books, all worldwide bestsellers, including Carrie and The Shining. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
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