Lord of the Flies

The Graphic Novel: 'Brilliant and thrilling' Observer

William Golding, Aimée de Jongh, Aimée de Jongh

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Faber & Faber
03 December 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Graphic novels: literary & memoirs; General fiction (Children's&YA); Comic strip fiction & graphic novels (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's&YA); Graphic Novel

'Aime

de Jongh's stunning reimagining has a visceral impact all its own .' The Times

'Beautifully imagined ... so poignant and relevant.' CHRIS MOULD

'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece.' Comics Review

Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.

A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.

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

Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.

'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?'

For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aime de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.

By: William Golding
Illustrated by: Aimée de Jongh
Adapted by: Aimée de Jongh
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780571374250
ISBN 10: 0571374255
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , Children/juvenile , ELT Advanced , 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 Aime de Jongh is a renowned graphic novelist. Her debut The Return of the Honey Buzzard won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to a live-action film whilst her graphic novel Days of Sand was an international bestseller, and nominated for two Eisner awards. She has been published in eleven languages to date.