Lord: Desert Island and Piggy
LORD OF THE FLIES a novel by WILLIAM GOLDING
With a biographical and critical note by E. L. Epstein A Perigee Book Published by The Berkley Publishing Group 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Copyright 1954 by William Golding Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 59-11717 ISBN 0-399-50148-7 Contents 1. The Sound of the Shell page 2. Fire on the Mountain
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Huts on the Beach Painted Faces and Long Hair Beast from Water Beast from Air Shadows and Tall Trees Gift for the Darkness A View to a Death The Shell and the Glasses Castle Rock Cry of the Hunters Notes
For my mother and father
CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. "Hi!" it said. "Wait a minute!" The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. "Wait a minute," the voice said. "I got caught up." The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties. The voice spoke again. "I can't hardly move with all these creeper things." The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy windbreaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up
With a biographical and critical note by E. L. Epstein A Perigee Book Published by The Berkley Publishing Group 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Copyright 1954 by William Golding Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 59-11717 ISBN 0-399-50148-7 Contents 1. The Sound of the Shell page 2. Fire on the Mountain
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3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Huts on the Beach Painted Faces and Long Hair Beast from Water Beast from Air Shadows and Tall Trees Gift for the Darkness A View to a Death The Shell and the Glasses Castle Rock Cry of the Hunters Notes
For my mother and father
CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. "Hi!" it said. "Wait a minute!" The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. "Wait a minute," the voice said. "I got caught up." The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties. The voice spoke again. "I can't hardly move with all these creeper things." The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy windbreaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up