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    Lord of the Flies: Casebook Edition

    Author William Golding
    Edited by James Robert Baker, Arthur P. Ziegler
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Sep 01, 1987 | 336 Pages | 9780399506437
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    A Casebook Edition containing the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, plus notes and critical essays

    The material in this casebook edition of one of the most widely read novels of our time includes not only the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, but also statements by William Golding about the novel, reminisces of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E.M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of view. Included are psychological, religious, and literary approaches by noted scholars and studies of the novel's relation to earlier works, as well as to other writings by Golding. The editors have also included bibliographical material and explanatory notes.

    Edited by James R. Baker and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
    Lord of the FliesArthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
    Foreword

    James R. Baker
    Introduction

    William Golding
    Lord of the Flies

    James Keating-William Golding
    Purdue Interview

    Frank Kermode-William Golding
    The Meaning of It All

    Frank Kermode
    The Novels of William Golding

    E. M. Forster
    An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

    Donald R. Spangler
    Simon

    Carl Niemeyer
    The Coral Island Revisited

    J. T. C. Golding
    A World of Violence and Small Boys

    John Peter
    The Fables of William Golding

    Ian Gregor & Mark Kinkead-Weekes
    An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

    William R. Mueller
    An Old Story Well Told

    Thomas M. Coskren
    Is Golding Calvinistic?

    Claire Rosenfield
    Men of a Smaller Growth

    E. L. Epstein
    Notes on "Lord of the Flies"

    Time
    Lord of the Campus

    A Checklist of Publications Relevant to "Lord of the Flies"

    William Golding (1911–1993) was born in Cornwall, England, and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other activities during and after World War II, Golding wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), while teaching school. Many novels followed, including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Spire (1964), as well as a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958), and a collection of shorter works, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (1965). He received the James Tait Black Prize for Darkness Visible (1979) and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980). In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.” He was awarded the title “Companion of Literature” by the Royal Society of Literature in 1983 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England. View titles by William Golding
    "Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years." 
    —Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

    "As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954."
    —Stephen King

    "The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." 
    —Time

    "This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is." 
    —The New York Times Book Review
     
    "Sparely and elegantly written...Lord of the Flies is a grim anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance, violence, and warfare." 
    —Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

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    A Casebook Edition containing the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, plus notes and critical essays

    The material in this casebook edition of one of the most widely read novels of our time includes not only the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, but also statements by William Golding about the novel, reminisces of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E.M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of view. Included are psychological, religious, and literary approaches by noted scholars and studies of the novel's relation to earlier works, as well as to other writings by Golding. The editors have also included bibliographical material and explanatory notes.

    Edited by James R. Baker and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr.

    Table of Contents

    Lord of the FliesArthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
    Foreword

    James R. Baker
    Introduction

    William Golding
    Lord of the Flies

    James Keating-William Golding
    Purdue Interview

    Frank Kermode-William Golding
    The Meaning of It All

    Frank Kermode
    The Novels of William Golding

    E. M. Forster
    An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

    Donald R. Spangler
    Simon

    Carl Niemeyer
    The Coral Island Revisited

    J. T. C. Golding
    A World of Violence and Small Boys

    John Peter
    The Fables of William Golding

    Ian Gregor & Mark Kinkead-Weekes
    An Introduction to "Lord of the Flies"

    William R. Mueller
    An Old Story Well Told

    Thomas M. Coskren
    Is Golding Calvinistic?

    Claire Rosenfield
    Men of a Smaller Growth

    E. L. Epstein
    Notes on "Lord of the Flies"

    Time
    Lord of the Campus

    A Checklist of Publications Relevant to "Lord of the Flies"

    Author

    William Golding (1911–1993) was born in Cornwall, England, and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other activities during and after World War II, Golding wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), while teaching school. Many novels followed, including The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), Free Fall (1959), and The Spire (1964), as well as a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958), and a collection of shorter works, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces (1965). He received the James Tait Black Prize for Darkness Visible (1979) and the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980). In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.” He was awarded the title “Companion of Literature” by the Royal Society of Literature in 1983 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England. View titles by William Golding

    Praise

    "Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years." 
    —Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games

    "As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954."
    —Stephen King

    "The most influential novel...since Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." 
    —Time

    "This brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality. Lord of the Flies does. It must also be superbly written. It is." 
    —The New York Times Book Review
     
    "Sparely and elegantly written...Lord of the Flies is a grim anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance, violence, and warfare." 
    —Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

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