Lord of the Flies

Celebrating William Golding´s dystopian classic of boyhood and the savagery of humanity, now a Penguin Classics Black Spine 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. William Golding´s compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse, but above all it has earned its place as one of the indisputable classics of the 20th century for readers of any age. The Lord of the Flies black-spine edition celebrates William Golding´s classic with a special collection of supplementary materials — including a foreword by Lois Lowry, a new introduction by scholar Rachel Greenwald Smith, and suggestions for further exploration by scholar Jennifer Buehler — that further contextualize the novel as an integral work in the last century of literature.