Title: Lord of the Flies
First published: May 17, 2006
Description: Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.

The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Time also included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, a 2016 UK poll saw Lord of the Flies ranked third in the nation's favourite books from school.

(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies)
Subjects: fiction, relationships, adventure, morality, survival, childhood, children, boys, ethics, castaway, shipwreck, regression, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Literature and fiction (general), English literature, Death, thriller, Interpersonal relations, Islands, Castaways, Good and evil, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Leadership, Regression (Psychology), Interpersonal relations in children, Zhang pian xiao shuo, Moral conditions, Golding, william, 1911-1993, English literature, outlines, syllabi, etc., History and criticism, Airplane crash survival, Allegories, Psychological fiction, Shipwreck survival, Adventure stories, Human relations, Adventure and adventurers, Psychological aspects, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Action & Adventure
Places: Pacific Ocean, On an inhabited island, Island, England, The Country, Ying guo
People: William Golding (1911-1993), a group of young boys
Time periods: 1940-1960, Xiandai
LC classification: PR6013.O35 L6 1983, PR6013.O35