Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies by William Golding is a modern classic. "Golding knows exactly what boys are like; he has a compelling imagination; and the vivid realism with which he describes the disintegration of their untried and precarious civilisation under the pressure of raw nature carries the reader to the bloody climax a most absorbing and instructive tale." The Times Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of Golding's story was first