Lord of the Flies

William Gerald Golding is an English writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
“Lord of the Flies” is the author’s debut work, published in 1954, and almost immediately gained the fame of a classic, but before that, Golding was rejected by more than two dozen publishers.
At the beginning of World War II, a group of children find themselves on a deserted island as a result of a plane crash. Left without the careful supervision of adults, they joyfully accept the freedom they have gained to do whatever they want. The children try to create a society with their own laws, but fail, feeling the true power of violence, sin, and evil. The established order of relationships is destroyed, strange, frightening sounds are carried through the night air. And when fear settles in children’s hearts, the hope for a fun journey full of interesting adventures begins to seem far from reality, as does the hope for salvation.
Called a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the coming apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most significant novel about "former innocence," "the darkness of the human heart."