Lord of the Flies

William Golding´s Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: ´exciting, relevant and thought-provoking´ (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? ´One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.´ (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games) A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, it isn´t long before their innocent childhood games devolve into a savage, murderous hunt ...