Book
Lord of the Flies
- Published
- 1954
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- Alfaguara
- Pages
- 182
- Words
- 59900
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.0
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 770L
- Guided reading level
- Z
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”
Collections
Halsted - Best FriendsMensa Kids · 9-12Time Magazine 1923-2005
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9788556521224
- ISBN-10
- 8556521223
Tags
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