The Lord Of The Flies: William Golding

In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane, carrying evacuated schoolboys, crashes on an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. At first the boys are enchanted with their freedom from supervision and authority, but Ralph and a few of his friends recognise the need to learn and implement survival skills, such as fishing, hunting, shelter and maintaining a smoke signal for rescue. But it's not long before even this basic law and order deteriorates as the boys are more concerned with fun, lazing and the formation of a group of hunters and their rituals. And now the horror really begins....Labelled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most memorable novel about the end of innocence...the darkness of man’s heart.