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William Golding's profound tale of stranded youth, survival, and the shadowy depths of human nature A Penguin...
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William Golding's profound tale of stranded youth, survival, and the shadowy depths of human nature A Penguin Classic At the dawn of the next World War, a plane crash strands a group of schoolboys on a remote island. There are no grownups. No rules. Freedom is celebrated. But when strange, distant noises and visions of a beast begin to haunt the boys, their fragile order unravels, and all hopes of rescue fade. Since 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies has shaped our understanding of human nature -- the latent darkness within, and the destructive or creative capacity of collective will. This edition also includes essays on reading and teaching the novel, an introduction from the 1962 edition by E. M. Forster, and notes by E. L. Epstein, scholar and book editor of the first 1959 American paperback edition, to contextualize Golding's classic as one of the most timeless and socially relevant texts in the last century of literature. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.25w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780143139355
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 744 / Lord of the Flies
About the Author
William Golding (1911-1993) was born in Cornwall, England, and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other activities during and after World War II, Golding wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), while teaching school. Many novels followed, including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Spire (1964), as well as a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958), and a collection of shorter works, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (1965). He received the James Tait Black Prize for Darkness Visible (1979) and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980). In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." He was awarded the title "Companion of Literature" by the Royal Society of Literature in 1983 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England. Lois Lowry is the two-time Newbery Award-winning author of Number the Stars, The Giver Quartet, and numerous other books for young adults. Rachel Greenwald Smith is a professor of English at Saint Louis University. She is the author of On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal and Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism. Her editorial work includes American Literature in Transition: 2000- 2010 and, with Mitchum Huehls, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture. Jennifer Buehler is an associate professor of English educational at Saint Louis University and the author of Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives, published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She served as president of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) in 2016.
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.25w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780143139355
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 744 / Lord of the Flies
About the Author
William Golding (1911-1993) was born in Cornwall, England, and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other activities during and after World War II, Golding wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), while teaching school. Many novels followed, including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Spire (1964), as well as a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958), and a collection of shorter works, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (1965). He received the James Tait Black Prize for Darkness Visible (1979) and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980). In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." He was awarded the title "Companion of Literature" by the Royal Society of Literature in 1983 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England. Lois Lowry is the two-time Newbery Award-winning author of Number the Stars, The Giver Quartet, and numerous other books for young adults. Rachel Greenwald Smith is a professor of English at Saint Louis University. She is the author of On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal and Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism. Her editorial work includes American Literature in Transition: 2000- 2010 and, with Mitchum Huehls, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture. Jennifer Buehler is an associate professor of English educational at Saint Louis University and the author of Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives, published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She served as president of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) in 2016.
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