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William Golding Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding while he worked as a teacher at a grammar school in Salisbury, England.

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Lord of the Flies, debut novel by English writer William Golding, first published in 1954. The book explores the tension between civilization and savagery through the story of a group of English schoolboys stranded on a remote island who try to govern themselves by establishing rules and roles in a place that has “No grownups!”​ ​The novel satirizes Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858). The Coral Island...

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