Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Resources

Lord of the Flies For Further Study

James R Baker and Arthur P Ziegler, Jr., editors, William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies,' A Casebook Edition' Text, Notes, and Criticism, Putnam, 1964, esp. pp. IX-XXIV, 189291

Includes the text of the novel, early critical articles pro and can, two interviews with Golding, and a checklist of other criticism.

C B Cox, review of Lord of the Flies, in Critical Quarterly, Vol. 2, no 2, Summer, 1960, pp. 112-17

A contemporary review calling Lord of the Flies one of the most important novels to be published in the 1950s.

James Gindin, William Golding, St. Martin's. 1988.

Gindin provides a good discussion of Golding's prose techniques and the way he suggests abstract ideas through his use of concrete detail.

G C Herndl, "Golding and Salinger: A Clear Choice," Wiseman Review, No. 502, Winter, 1964-65, pp. 309-22