Lord of the Flies

In this classic novel first published in the 1950s, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys' crashes on an uncharted island, stranding them. What follows is a chaotic and horrifying unravelling of the boys’ humanity and reason as their attempts to forge their own society fail in the face of sin and evil. A brutal and thought-provoking book, Lord of the Flies has challenged readers for over sixty years about what it is that serves to strip away our humanity and allow brutality and violence to reign.