Lord of the Flies. The Heirs

"Lord of the Flies" – a strange, frightening, and amazing book.
A philosophical parable about the nature of evil.
The story of well-mannered boys who suddenly find themselves on a deserted island.

"The Heirs" – the second and, according to Golding, his favorite novel, which further develops his reflections on the origins of evil, first voiced in "Lord of the Flies".
The Pleistocene, 40,000 years BC. A tribe of Neanderthals, who have only recently learned to use fire and primitive tools and are just beginning to master speech, encounter a tribe of humans on the next stage of evolution – humans with a remarkably sophisticated mind and incredible agility…