

It is." -The New York Times Book Review "Sparely and elegantly written. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality. " -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.

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. 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, " 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, " Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books.

" Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books.
