Lord of the Flies
The Graphic Novel: 'Brilliant and thrilling' Observer
Published on 12. September 2024
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-571-37425-0 (ISBN)
Description
'Aimee de Jongh's stunning reimagining has a visceral impact all its own .' The Times
'Beautifully imagined ... so poignant and relevant.' CHRIS MOULD
'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece.' Comics Review
Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.
'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.
'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?'
For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimee de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.
'Beautifully imagined ... so poignant and relevant.' CHRIS MOULD
'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece.' Comics Review
Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.
'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.
'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?'
For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimee de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
colour
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1076 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-37425-0 (9780571374250)
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E-Book
09/2024
Faber & Faber
€19.99
Available for download
Persons
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated in Marlborough and Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of the Netherlands. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was turned down by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 35 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk
Aimee de Jongh is a renowned graphic novelist. Her debut The Return of the Honey Buzzard won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to a live-action film whilst her graphic novel Days of Sand was an international bestseller, and nominated for two Eisner awards. Her adaptation of Lord of the Flies is being published in twenty one languages.
Aimee de Jongh is a renowned graphic novelist. Her debut The Return of the Honey Buzzard won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to a live-action film whilst her graphic novel Days of Sand was an international bestseller, and nominated for two Eisner awards. Her adaptation of Lord of the Flies is being published in twenty one languages.