Lord of the Flies – William Golding

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted
island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult
supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from
civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt
to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin
and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night,
as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from
reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a
myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of
the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable tale
about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.