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Who was William Golding
William Golding
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During World War II, he fought battleships at the sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off submarines and planes.
Riddled with symbolism, the book set the tone for Golding’s future work, in which he continued to examine man’s internal struggle between good and evil.
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Facts of the book
Lord of the Flies is an example of allegorical fiction, which means that the message of the book is made through symbolic
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Published in 1954 by Faber & Faber, Lord of the Flies was his first novel.
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Upon its release in September 1954, Lord of the Flies underwhelmed at bookstores, selling only 4662 copies through the following year and falling out of print shortly thereafter.
Critical acclaim and the respect of the academic community steadily grew over the rest of the decade, and the novel eventually found enough of an audience that by 1962 it had moved 65,000 copies.
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