- Category: Books » Fiction & Literature » Classics
- Format: Paperback Learn more about the Paperback format using Tower WIKI.
- Publisher: Penguin USA
- ISBN: 0140283331
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100532068
- Release Date: October 1, 1999
- Average Customer Review: There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #65809 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #8245 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #158 in Classics (See Top 100 Classics Bestsellers)
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Lord of the Flies"Browse more products related to "William Golding"Review"With undertones of '1984' and 'High Wind in Jamaica', this brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must apprach very close to reality. 'Lord of the Flies' does. It must also be superbly written. It is. If criticism must be leveled at such a feat of the imagination, it is permissible perhaps to carp at the very premise on which the whole strange story is founded." "Though much of the novel is in fact sparely and elegantly written..., there does seem to be a paint-by-numbers quality to its structure and periodically articulated epiphanies. The schoolboys...are types rather than characters....'Lord of the Flies' is a grim anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance, violence, and warfare." "One sees what Golding is doing. He is showing us stripped man, man naked of all the sanctions of custom and civilization, man as he is alone and in his essence, or at any rate, as he can be conceived to be in such a condition." "Like any orthodox moralist Golding insists that Man is a fallen creature, but he refuses to hypostatize Evil or to locate it in a dimension of its own. On the contrary Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, is Roger and Jack and you and I, ready to declare himself as soon as we permit him to." First lineThe boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Publisher's noteThe classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island. AnnotationIn this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society. If You Enjoy "Lord of the Flies (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Lord of the Flies (Paperback)" by William Golding (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling Books
Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
| |||||||||||||||||
|
