El señor de las moscas

El libro de bolsillo - Biblioteca de autor - Golding No. 1

by William Golding, Carmen Vergara

Paperback, 286 pages

Spanish language

Published Nov. 19, 2010 by Alianza.

ISBN:: 978-84-206-7417-9
OCLC Number:: 892755396

(29 reviews)

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.

The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Time also included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, a 2016 UK poll saw Lord …

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crabbygirl reviewed Lord of the flies by William Golding

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3 stars

perhaps this should be categorized as YA, but the facts are that 1) Golding wrote this for an adult audience 2) his publisher sold it to an adult audience and 3) the YA category didn't even exist back then!
anyhow, it's often read in highschool (i didn't - we were assigned john Knowle's A Separate Peace) but ds was reading it for a writing critique so i picked it up as well.
it's got some archaic vocabulary, and long descriptive passages so i can see how it might dovetail into middle school boys hating to read. i was also surprised at how piggy was described. knowing that his death was to be a pivot point of the novel, i expect a more compassionate account of him (thru either the author's or the protagonist's eyes) but he's actually quite easy to dislike. then again, that may be the point. a …

Radioactivestardust reviewed Lord of the flies by William Golding

Review of 'Lord of the flies' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I hate this book. I see and understand the philosophical thoughts behind it, and i still hate it. I hate how Golding thought about kids (even if they are a metaphor). I hate his writing, which was horrible. It is unbelievable you can corrupt the English language like that or be forced to read a book with non coherent sentences in school. Sentences that have no meaning. I hate the sexism and the patriarchy behind it. I hate the introduction that tells me how i should interpret this book, because apparently the book itself can't do it on its own. And the worst is, that this book won a Nobel prize in literature..