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Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Time also included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.…

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"I also remember feeling enormous affection for the St. Bernard Buck in Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” and, in later years, Ralph in “Lord of the Flies.”"
By the Book: Dan Brown · nytimes.com
"such classics as “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Call of the Wild,” “The Member of the Wedding,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Lord of the Flies” are all great Y.A. novels."
By the Book: Joyce Carol Oates · nytimes.com