Lord of the Flies
Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time—selling fewer than 3,000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went on to become a best-seller. It has been adapted to film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook, and once in Filipino (1976). Background The book indicates that it takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting human impulses toward civilization—living by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and toward the will to power. Plot In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British plane crashes on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. One night, an aerial battle occurs over the island while the boys sleep, during which a dead fighter pilot is ejected from his plane. The following morning, Jack orders his tribe to begin a manhunt for Ralph. Allegorical relationships
Kindle in Australia: Which Books Are Available? | Kindle Alternatives
Apple is rumoured to be releasing a tablet PC that functions as an e-reader early next year and Microsoft created a prototype tablet (or booklet, since it has two screens) called Courier, judging from a video that was leaked online. In the meantime, ASUS unveiled a dual-screen colour e-reader at CeBIT earlier this year; Sony signed a deal with Marvel Comics (and is in talks with other comic publishers) to let PSP users read electronic comic books by the end of this year, with other content, including novels, expected next year; and Nintendo released a collection of classic book titles for its DS hand-held console. iPhone, Blackberry and other mobile users can already download e-readers to work on their phones. The display technology these e-readers use is an important consideration. While the Kindle and its ilk use E Ink, a technology that recreates the look of ink on a page (see graphic), multi-function devices such as the PSP are sticking to LCD screens.
Looking for Alaska Questions Answered
selfishdisasterology asked: Who are Tori and Ani? Oh God I am so old and that book is so old. (Tori Amos and Ani Difranco.) Anonymous asked: Does it matter how Alaska died? So there are going to be questions in your life—big questions—that need to be answered and deserved to be answered but nonetheless go unanswered. There will be questions around deaths and friendships and romances and religion and mysteries of every variety that never get solved to your satisfaction. Finding a way to live with that ambiguity matters. It certainly matters to Pudge and the Colonel and Takumi and Lara what happened, and one assumes it will never stop mattering to them. Anonymous asked: Why Strawberry Hill wine in particular? …It is what I drank in high school. (Trying to think of some metaphor…) Yeah. Anonymous asked: This may seem really crazy to you. I’m going to recommend that you not read the book, actually. (That’s amazing if true.) Anonymous asked: What nationality is Colonel and his mother? I don’t know.
School Libraries Struggle with E-Book Loans
Digital Tools Paul Stainthorp Just as many predicted, sales figures show that more people are opting to buy e-books rather than printed copies. It isn’t just publishers that are scrambling to adjust their business models to the growing demand for e-books; so too are libraries having to reconsider how they will provide content for their patrons. Even though there’s keen interest on the part of library patrons to check out e-books, making a move to digital loans is not going to be easy. What might be good news for consumers — your whole library on your cellphone, for example — might be terrible news for libraries. There are lots of considerations libraries must make: which e-reader(s) will they adopt? But the biggest problem, according to librarian Buffy Hamilton, author of the Unquiet Librarian blog, is DRM. “The biggest challenge for libraries is trying to accommodate the demand for eBooks in a world in which there is no standard DRM,” Hamilton said in a recent interview. Related
Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. And now, the final results are in. Selecting a manageable voting roster from among the more than 1,200 nominations that came in from readers wasn't easy, and we were happy to be able to rely on such an experienced panel of judges. Summer, like youth, is fleeting.
Gadsby (novel)
Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E" is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized thanks to the efforts of protagonist John Gadsby and a youth group he organizes. The novel is written as a lipogram and does not include words that contain the letter "e". Though self-published and little-noticed in its time, the book is a favourite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after rarity among some book collectors. Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Organization of Youth" to build civic spirit and improve living standards. The story begins around 1906 and continues through World War I, Prohibition, and President Warren G. The novel is written from the point of view of an anonymous narrator, who continually complains about his poor writing skills and often uses circumlocution.
