topics: |  fiction | nobel-1983

When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews
for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic
and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate
book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is
magnificient... like a fragment of nightmare... a dizzy climax of
terror... the terrible spell of this book..." E.M. Forster chose it as the
Outstanding Novel of the Year.