Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, with a foreword by Stephen King
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“I think our sense of good and bad—the idea of a civilised person—tends to depend on community. So what happens when you are thrown into a desert on your own? When you become Robinson Crusoe, for example, what do you do? That is when your integrity is tested, when nobody is looking.” Read more...
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