|
Lord of the Flies - Golding William
|
Lord of the Flies
Type : Books
SKU: VV1649673
ISBN: 9780399501487
Pages: 208
Format: 189 x 109 x 13
Cover: Paperback
Year: 1959
Publisher: Random House (USA) (Random House (USA))
Your Price: $66.58
will be shipped in 14-20 days (отправляется через 14-20 дня)
|
| |
Краткая аннотация:
Before «The Hunger Games» there was «Lord of the Flies» Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories and another world is revealed beneath, primitive an |
|
