id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-921 Lord of the Flies - Wikipedia .html text/html 4771 506 78 Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. M. Ballantyne's youth novel The Coral Island (1857),[5] and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer's description of the boys' initial attempts at civilised cooperation as "a jolly good show, like the Coral Island".[6] Golding's three central characters (Ralph, Piggy, and Jack) have been interpreted as caricatures of Ballantyne's Coral Island protagonists.[7] On 5 November 2019, BBC News listed Lord of the Flies on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[22] Author Stephen King uses the name Castle Rock, from the mountain fort in Lord of the Flies, as a fictional town that has appeared in a number of his novels.[30] The book itself appears prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Misery (1987), and Cujo (1981).[31] "The 100 best novels: No 74 – Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-921.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-921.txt