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Lord of the Flies - William Golding

First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by William Golding. With an anonymous third-person narrator, the story is about a group of boys who are stranded on a deserted tropical island.
Lord of the Flies
Every year, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles a list of formal complaints filed by patrons demanding that certain books be removed from schools or public libraries. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, persistently makes the top 100 on this list (in 2006, the novel reached number 70 on the banned books list).
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Here's a vocabulary list from Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Use these terms for reference, study, and discussion.
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Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, was first published in 1954. This tale of schoolboys stranded on a desert island is the best-known work by Golding. The novel is now sometimes compared to The Cacher in the Rye as one of the popular books for high school and college students. Here are a few quotes from the novel.

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