Lord of the Flies
A planeload of British schoolboys comes down on a Pacific island with no adults, and they elect a chief, set rules by a conch, and light a signal fire. Hunting, a rumored beast on the mountain, and a rival with a following begin pulling the assembly apart. Postwar fiction's bleakest verdict on what order is actually made of.
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- responds to ↑ Robinson Crusoe
- takes its title from ↑ The Gospels
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