Lord of the Flies’ Themes are Difficult for Kids to Act. There’s a darkness in every human being, whether we like to think so or not. Looking at ourselves in the mirror while brushing our ...

When I saw that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was turning 70, I bought myself a new copy. I hadn’t read it for a while — 30 years, give or take — and I wondered what its effects ...

“Lord of the Flies,” first published by Faber for what was then an unknown author, has become one of the most popular books on English curricula for the last 70 years. Golding won the Nobel ...

Golding was about to turn 43 when Lord of the Flies was first published. His big idea was a sinister 20th-Century reimagining of The Coral Island, RM Ballantyne's 1857 tale of derring-do in which ...

The BBC is taking on the iconic 1954 novel Lord of the Flies and turning it into a TV series. ... Thorne said, "It is a book, ... He understood that its relevance would not die away.