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Lord of the flies / William Golding.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Faber firstsPublication details: London : Faber, 2009, c1954.Description: 225 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780571245895
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic.] 22
Awards:
  • Winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Summary: 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. Suggested level: secondary.
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Fiction Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Fiction GOLD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00520386

Originally published: London : Faber, 1954.

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. Suggested level: secondary.

Winner of the Nobel prize for literature

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