LordoftheFlies

"I said we could all do without a certain person. Now I say we got to decide on what can be done. And I think I could tell you w ...

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The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion. Piggy was so full of delight a ...

Contents The Sound of the Shell Fire on the Mountain Huts on the Beach Painted Faces and Long Hair Beast from Water Beast from ...

As the fire died down so did the excitement. The littluns stopped singing and dancing and drifted away toward the sea or the fru ...

For my mother and father ...

"I seen them stealing off when we was gathering wood. They went that way. The same way as he went himself." Ralph finished his i ...

CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his w ...

"Where's Simon?" "I don't know." "You don't think he's climbing the mountain?" Piggy broke into noisy laughter and took more fru ...

"Where's the man with the megaphone?" The fair boy shook his head. "This is an island. At least I think it's an island. That's a ...

"We're going to forget the beast." "That's right!" "Yes!" "Forget the beast!" If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not ...

"We was attacked!" "He'll be back all right." The fat boy shook his head. "When we was coming down I looked through one of them ...

silence and heat. Under the trees an ear flapped idly. A little apart from the rest, sunk in deep maternal bliss, lay the larges ...

"My auntie told me not to run," he explained, "on account of my asthma." "Ass-mar?" "That's right. Can't catch my breath. I was ...

They surrounded the covert but the sow got away with the sting of another spear in her flank. The trailing butts hindered her an ...

the open sea was dark blue. Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake―blue of all shades and sha ...

"Did you hear what he said?" "Right up her ass!" This time Robert and Maurice acted the two parts; and Maurice's acting of the p ...

"My auntie―" Then he opened the zipper with decision and pulled the whole wind- breaker over his head. "There!" Ralph looked at ...

"Sharpen a stick at both ends." Presently he stood up, holding the dripping sow's head in his hands. "Where's that stick?" "Here ...

Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned P ...