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When news that an all-female reimagining of William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies would be made into a film, the vocal masses reacted with incredulity.. There are plenty of reasons to ...
Reading “Lord of the Flies” -- a.k.a. Beelzebub -- in school was particularly disturbing for me and, I imagine, anyone else who was bookish, nerdy, and prone to annoyingly have the answers to ...
Ms. Lowry, who is 78 years old, was 17 when she read “Lord of the Flies” for an English course at Brown University. “It took me by surprise,” she remembers. “Kind of a grim surprise.” ...
An all-female “Lord of the Flies” is facing backlash for missing the point of the book. “We want to do a very faithful but contemporized adaptation of the book, but our idea was to do it ...
As the subtitle of Carey’s book declares, its titular figure remains identified as “The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies.’ That book has been translated into more than 30 languages and has ...
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 ...
A new book reveals a real-life "Lord of the Flies" that demonstrates that we can be good to each other even under the most dire circumstances.
A biography of William Golding, whose first novel — “Lord of the Flies” — began as a blessing to its 42-year-old author, but came to seem like a curse overshadowing his other work.