TY - BOOK AU - Golding, William TI - Lord of the flies T2 - Faber firsts SN - 9780571245895 U1 - [Fic.] 22 PY - 2009///, c1954 CY - London PB - Faber KW - Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc KW - Fiction KW - Islands KW - Boys N1 - Originally published: London : Faber, 1954 N2 - 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 ER -