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Lord of the Flies
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Skilfully exploring the tension between individuality and conformity, the desire for civilisation versus the lust for power, it is unsurprising that William Golding's debut novel went on to become such a triumph.
A plane crashes on a desert island, and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assembles on the beach and waits to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys’ delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-09-22
Nice story, worth a read
This book tells a nice story of what happens when little kids are given the responsibility to build a civilisation from ground up and how horribly things can go wrong. The story is good, but given the vast premise that was set up at the beginning, I expected that a lot could have been done to show how children are building a civilisation.
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- Srijoy Kanjilal
- 18-03-23
Allegorical and chilling
While the story is steeped heavily in symbolism and is tremendously chilling.. it bears a lot of similarities with Animal Farm.. far too many similarities in fact.
Overall though it was an outstanding story - considered on its own.. all that can go wrong with societies and countries.. how civil wars start and the like.
A final word on Martin Jarvis.. I am in absolute awe of this man's reading. He makes every word every syllable stand out - every sequence is read such that the scene is vivid in front of your eyes although the words are entering your ears.
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