As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of...

Shipwrecked English schoolboys set up their own civilization until savagery finally emerges.

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

Adaptation of the classic tale of civilization stripped away.