Lord of the Flies
Title | Lord of the Flies |
Year for Search | 1954 |
Authors | Golding, William(1911-93) |
Date Published | 1954 |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Dystopia. Children left alone on a island revert to a violent, primitive existence showing that civilization is only a veneer. |
Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Rpt. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Berkley, 2004. Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 2016 with a “Foreword” by Lois Lowry (xi-xv), an “Introduction” by Stephen King (xvii-xxii) rpt. from the London: Faber & Faber, 2011 edition, “On Reading and Teaching Lord of the Flies” by Jennifer Buehler (263-76), “Suggestions for Further Exploration” by Jennifer Buehler (277-93), “Introduction to the 1962 Edition” by E.M. Forster (295-300), and “Notes on Lord of the Flies from the 1959 Edition” by E[dmund] L. Epstein (301-07). Films in 1963 directed and with a screenplay by Peter Brook (b. 1925) and in 1990 directed by Harry Hook with the screenplay by Jay [Jacqueline] Presson Allen (1932-2006) writing as Sara Schiff [pseud.]. A TV takeoff on the book appeared as on “Das Bus.” The Simpsons. Season 9, Episode 14 (February 15, 1998), written by David S. Cohen in which Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are forced to work together. |
Info Notes | For a satire on political correctness using Lord of the Flies, see Joe Keohane. “Politically Correct ‘Lord of the Flies’.” The New Yorker (September 9, 2005). http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/politically-correct-lord-of-the-flies. |
Holding Institutions | DLC, MoU-St |
Author Note | (1911-93) |
Full Text | 1954 Golding, William (1911-93). Lord of the Flies. Dystopia. Children left alone on a island revert to a violent, primitive existence showing that civilization is only a veneer. For a satire on political correctness using Lord of the Flies, see Joe Keohane. “Politically Correct ‘Lord of the Flies’.” The New Yorker (September 9, 2005). http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/politically-correct-lord-of-the-flies. |