Lord of the Flies

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: `exciting, relevant and thought-provoking` (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?
`One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.` (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games)
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, it isn't long before their innocent childhood games devolve into a savage, murderous hunt ...