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Lord of the Flies, in book form, was the eerie little novel by William Golding that replaced Salinger's long-loved Catcher in the Rye in undergraduate affections and book bags. It was an ominous replacement. On the surface, the story tells of a band of English schoolboys who...
Much of Golding's novel is intact in the film version by Director-Adapter Peter Brook. The sight of black-robed choirboys marching up a tropical beach chanting "Kyrie eleison" in four-four time is properly bizarre; the initial attempts of the castaways to preserve decency and order ("After...
The tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does...
The book, published in 1956, was mean as "a sober assessment of small boy when left alone," according to its author. Although he said in such an allegory "all hell will break loose with no constraints," Golding remarked that a reader's mood at the end of Lord of the...
Asked about his plans for future writing, Golding mentioned that "Ultimately you'll find another book with my name on it. I've written a book three times and now have to rewrite half of the thing draft. It might come out in the spring."