Lord of the Flies
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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.
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| ISBN-13 |
9780571245895 |
| ISBN-10 |
0571245897 |
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| Stock |
Out of stock |
| Status |
Out of print |
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| Publisher |
Faber and Faber |
| Imprint |
Faber and Faber |
| Publication Date |
1 August 2009
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| International Publication Date |
7 May 2009 |
| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Paperback |
| Edition |
Special 80th birthday edition |
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| Author(s) |
By Golding, William |
| Category |
General & Literary Fiction
Classic Fiction
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
General & Literary Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
240 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 126mm
Height: 198mm
Spine: 15mm |
| Weight |
196g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.914 |
| Catalogue Code |
64433 |
Description of this Book
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics.
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Author's Bio
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.
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