
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
1952

William Golding · 1954
208 pages
A group of schoolboys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and tries to govern themselves. Order slips first into fear and then into savagery as the boys turn on one another. An allegory about civilisation, violence and what people become without rules.
Survival, Deserted Island, Outcast Hero, Betrayal, Coming of Age, Philosophical
Content warnings: animal death