Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Lord-of-the-Flies-by-William-Golding-At-the-dawn-of-the-next-world-war,-a-plane-crashes-on-an-uncharted-island,-stranding-a-group-of-schoolboys.-At-first,-with-no-adult-supervision,-their-freedom-is-something-to-celebrate;-this-far-from-civilization-the-boys-can-do-anything-they-want.-Anything.-They-attempt-to-forge-their-own-society,-failing,-however,-in-the-face-of-terror,-sin-and-evil.-And-as-order-collapses,-as-strange-howls-echo-in-the-night,-as-terror-begins-its-reign,-the-hope-of-adventure-seems-as-far-from-reality-as-the-hope-of-being-rescued.-Labeled-a-parable,-an-allegory,-a-myth,-a-morality-tale,-a-parody,-a-political-treatise,-even-a-vision-of-the-apocalypse,-Lord-of-the-Flies-is-perhaps-our-most-memorable-novel-about-“the-end-of-innocence,-the-darkness-of-man’s-heart.”