Essay Archive - A Review of Lord of the Flies
A Review of Lord of the Flies
Sir William Golding (1911-1993), was an English novelist who wrote exciting
adventure stories who deal with the conflict between mind and instinct.
William Gerald Golding was born in St. Columb Minor, in Cornwall. He was
knighted in 1988. His novels are moral fables that reveal how dangerous and
destructive human brings may be unless they are restrained by conscience.
Golding won the 1983 Nobel Prize for literature. His most famous book,
"Lord of the flies" tells of a group of boys stranded on an island. The
Inheritors is set in prehistoric times. The Napoleonic era ....
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