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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Start date: September 18, 2016

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Aug 19, 2009 Jim Townsend rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is one of those books that my teachers in high school didn't assign me, but should've. Classic British fiction that explores what happens when you strand people for weeks away from civilization. It doesn't take long, as Golding points out in notes by essayist E. L. Epstein, to tap into that "heart of darkness" that Joseph Conrad found in human nature. This was war, pure and simple, between fair-haired Ralph (representing rationality) and redheaded, savage Jack Meriwell. Disturbing but rivet ...more

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