Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Lord of the Flies" is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is about a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-1999. In 2005, the novel was chosen by "Time magazine" as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" was Golding's first novel, in response to The Coral Island. Although it was not a great success at the time - selling fewer than 3000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print - it soon went on to become a bestseller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges. It was adapted to film in 1963 by Peter Brook, and again in 1990 by Harry Hook.