Bloody Cavemen

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Monteith’s colleague Alan Pringle eventually suggested ‘Lord of the Flies’. On 11 February 1954 – more than a year after Golding had first sent out the manuscript – Monteith accepted it for publication. In many ways, it’s Golding’s most ambitious novel.

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