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  2. Jun 30, 2017 · In his masterful biography of Golding, John Carey writes that Golding was inspired to write the ‘real’ story of what would happen if boys were stranded on an island – ‘in Lord of the Flies he had written Coral Island in reverse’.

  3. Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Golding got the idea for the plot from The Coral Island, a children's adventure novel with a focus on Christianity and the supposed civilising influence of British colonialism. Golding thought that the book was unrealistic, and asked his wife if it would be a good idea if he "wrote ...

    • William Golding
    • 1954
  4. It was the inspiration for William Golding's dystopian novel Lord of the Flies (1954), which inverted the morality of The Coral Island; in Ballantyne's story the children encounter evil, but in Lord of the Flies evil is within them.

    • R. M. Ballantyne
    • 1857
  5. Sep 15, 2024 · Golding’s first published novel was Lord of the Flies (1954; film 1963 and 1990), the story of a group of schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery. Its imaginative and brutal depiction of the rapid and inevitable dissolution of social mores aroused widespread interest.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. Sep 16, 2024 · William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was first published on 17 September 1954, and is now recognised as a classic. In History looks at how Golding's story of English schoolboys and their...

  7. Jun 11, 2018 · William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1953, is a retelling in realistic terms of R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island. A group of boys, shot down during some kind of atomic war, are marooned on an island in the Pacific.

  8. William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. A group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes.

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