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Lord of the Flies
- Author
- William Golding
- Narrator
- Martin Jarvis
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 6 September 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
- Rating
- 5.0 (2 reviews)
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What to expect
Newly remastered with additional sound design to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lord of the Flies.
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait 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.
First Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics
'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.' Stephen King
'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' Guardian
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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Classic book, excellent narrator. Was so good I looked up other books by the same reader just to get more of his voice!
GregorM 2024-08-28
Details
- Author
- William Golding
- Narrator
- Martin Jarvis
- Duration
- 7 hours 2 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 September 2012
- ISBN
- 9780571249589
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
- Rating
- 5.0(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
Newly remastered with additional sound design to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Lord of the Flies. A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait 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. First Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics 'The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.' Stephen King 'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games 'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' Guardian
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