Table of Contents

Lord of the FliesArthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
Foreword

James R. Baker
Introduction

William Golding
Lord of the Flies

James Keating-William Golding
Purdue Interview

Frank Kermode-William Golding
The Meaning of It All

Frank Kermode
The Novels of William Golding

E. M. Forster
An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

Donald R. Spangler
Simon

Carl Niemeyer
The Coral Island Revisited

J. T. C. Golding
A World of Violence and Small Boys

John Peter
The Fables of William Golding

Ian Gregor & Mark Kinkead-Weekes
An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

William R. Mueller
An Old Story Well Told

Thomas M. Coskren
Is Golding Calvinistic?

Claire Rosenfield
Men of a Smaller Growth

E. L. Epstein
Notes on "Lord of the Flies"

Time
Lord of the Campus

A Checklist of Publications Relevant to "Lord of the Flies"

About the Author

Born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University, William Gerald Golding's first book, Poems, was published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote Lord of the Flies while teaching school. This was the first of several novels including Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and The Inheritors and a play, The Brass Butterfly, which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

Reviews

"Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years." 
—Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

"As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954."
—Stephen King

"The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." 
—Time

"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 approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is." 
—The New York Times Book Review
 
"Sparely and elegantly written...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." 
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

Here is another 50th-anniversary hardcover reprint. This edition sports the full text, plus notes and critical analyses. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is now available in a newly remastered, re-released audiobook edition from Listening Library, performed by the author. This audio update of the classic YA novel about the struggles of a group of British schoolboys stranded on a desert island comes 48 years after the print version first appeared in 1954 and 26 years after Golding was first recorded reading the book. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

"Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years."
-Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

"As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954."
-Stephen King

"The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the Rye."
-Time

"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 approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Sparely and elegantly written...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."
-Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books