These two books share the same basic plot line and even some of the same character names (two of the lead characters are named Ralph and Jack in both books). Ballantyne’s children’s classic The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. While the story has been compared to such works as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica, Golding’s novel is actually the author’s “answer” to 19th-century writer R.M.

Though it was the novel that established Golding’s reputation, Lord of the Flies was rejected by 21 publishers before Faber & Faber accepted the 43-year-old schoolmaster’s book. in which odd people are tempted to reach beyond their limits, thereby being bared to the very marrow.” But they have also aroused an unusually great interest in professional literary critics deep strata of ambiguity and complication in Golding’s work. They can be read with pleasure and profit without the need to make much effort with learning or acumen. Golding’s appeal was summarized by the Nobel Prize committee: “ books are very entertaining and exciting. With the appearance of Lord of the Flies, Golding’s first published novel, the author began his career as both a college campus cult favorite and one of the late 20th century’s distinctive-and much debated-literary talents. William Golding’s work has been described as pessimistic, mythical, spiritual-an allegorist who used his novels as a canvas to paint portraits of man’s constant struggle between his civilized self and his hidden, darker nature. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Though he is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he first published poetry before turning to novels and plays.

William Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford University.

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