Lord of the Flies

Deluxe Anniversary Edition

William Golding

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Hardback

Forthcoming
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English

Faber & Faber
01 February 2025

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Thrillers (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's&YA)

The iconic classic in a luxurious anniversary edition, with a foreword by Stephen King.

'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'

A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous . . .

By: William Golding
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main - 70th anniversary hardback edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9780571390762
ISBN 10: 0571390765
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated in Marlborough and Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of the Netherlands. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was turned down 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 35 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. www.william-golding.co.uk