01592cam a2200241 4500 68891360 TxAuBib 20060105120000.0 ||||||s1954||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780399501487 0399501487 DMP TxAuBib Golding, William. Lord of the flies : a novel / by William Golding ; with a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein. New York : Perigee, 1954. 208 p. ; 18 cm. The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. 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 has established itself as a true classic. 20060105. Ethics Fiction. Moral conditions Fiction. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. Fiction. Epstein, Edmund L.