Babb, Howard S. The Novels of William Golding. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1954.

This collection of critical studies about Golding's major works shows that the author was familiar with his works. One chapter's focus was on Lord of the Flies. In this chapter, Babb describes how Golding used the children's society to represent society as a whole and the evil within the human race. Babb was well researched in the symbolic meanings in Golding's writing. The book was helpful in explaining the deeper symbols of Lord of the Flies.

Baker, James R. William Golding. NewYork: St. Martin's Press, 1965.

This book is a collection of essays about William Golding and his written works. One of these essays was an in depth critical study about the characters and symbolism of Lord of the Flies. James Baker used a simplistic style to interpret the meaning of the book. He uses many references to support his studies. This book was useful in our discussions.

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1954.

This book describes how twenty-four boys survive being stranded on an island after a plane crash. Golding uses children to portray how he felt mankind was at heart. The book's language explained each character and their feelings. Our group enjoyed reading the book and liked Golding's style.

"Golding, William: 1911-1993." Online. Yahoo. Available at:

http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglist/golding,william.htm. (13 Feb. 1998).

This is an excellent web-site. It contains information from Barron's Book Notes and Monarch Notes, press releases and detailed information about The Lord of the Flies. There is a brief synopsis, plot information, student essay, student and teacher comments, background information, and much more. This web-site tells everything needed to know about William Golding and Lord of the Flies.

Grolier Encyclopedia. "Golding, William." Online. Netscape. Available at:

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/golding.htm. (March 4, 1998).

This site provides good quotable quotes for use in papers with citation. It also provides some little known information about Golding in the form of biographical information. Because it is an encyclopedia article, the information is not presented in a very interesting way, but you can still pick some good things out.

Houston, Daryl. "Golding's Themes." Online. Excite. Available at:

http://www.unc.edu/-dhouston/writings/prose/golding.html.

(March 4, 1998)

This is a great site. Houston compares at least four of Golding's books and classifies their general themes. He then goes on to explain what the themes do for the plot and character structure. There is a ton of great information.

James, Mertice M., and Dorothy Brown, eds. Book Review Digest 1955. New York: The H.W Wilson

Company, 1956.

This book is a collection of book reviews from 1955. There are various reviews from the time that Lord of the Flies came out. It was both praised and criticized by reviewers. This source aided in seeing how literary critics received the novel when it was first published.

Johnson, Chad and Emily Hicks. "The Lord of the Flies." 25 March 1996. Online. Yahoo. Available at:

http://chad.lovett.rice.edu/lord_of_the_flies/index.dna. (13 Feb. 1998).

This is a great web-site for anyone who has read The Lord of the Flies. It covers all the scenes in the book, describing them with literary devices used by William Golding and their imagination. The web-site covers all areas of the book, has a chat room, discusses criticism and commentary about the book, and has a special interview with a person who met William Golding. This web-site was a good tool to clear up any misunderstanding in the book and showed the many different literary devices used by Golding.

Kinkead-Weekes, Mark and Ian Gregor. Wiliam Golding: A Critical Study. New York: Harcourt, Brace,

and World, Inc, 1967.

This book is a critical study of William Golding as an author. The book explains his writing style, his symbolic meanings, and his cynical view of mankind. Kinkead-Weekes and Gregor divide the book into chapters titled by Golding novels. This book is helpful in seeing Golding as an author and as a thinker. It is evident through the depth of the study that Kinkead-Weekes and Gregor have studied Golding's works thoroughly.

Liao, Lillian F. "Two Novels, One Theme." Online. Netscape. Available at

http://www.eco.utexas.edu/undergraduate/Liao/e316k/LFHDLL1.html. (March 2, 1998)

Although the subject matter is not totally based on Lord of the Flies, it does give excellent information (in the form of comparison with another book) about the philosophical realm of the book. Character behavior is widely discussed, making it a good site for character analysis.

"Lord of the Flies." Online. Lycos. Available at:

http://www.elibrary.com/yahooligans/10044/fetch/flies_09.htm. (13 Feb.

1998).

This article was an excerpt from Magill's Survey of Cinema that gave a brief synopsis of the two movies made for Lord of the Flies. The movies followed the book exactly except for the nationality of the boys. In the 1990 version the boys were Americans instead of British. This article gave a good insight for the movie and described the book well.

"Lord of the Flies-Lo Fat Version." Online. Yahoo. Available at:

http://www.earthvision.svsu.edu/~jonathan/lotf/. (13 Feb.

1998).

This was a decent web-site but took too long to load. The site interpreted Lord of the Flies and explained it in the context of popular movies and music. The book was broken into categories like the island, the gang, etc.… This is a good web-site for understanding the book but other than that it does not cover any other topic about the author and his style.

Magil, Frank N., ed. Masterplots. Vol.6 New Jersey: Salem Press, 1976.

Masterplots is a collection of plot summaries from various famous works. The Lord of the Flies entry covers the importance and significance of the book. The book was received well by the people, replacing Catcher in the Rye "as a presentation of the human condition." It continues by describing the representation of each character and the human heart. The language of Masterplots was common and gave another view on the meaning of the characters in the story.

Martin, Mick, and Marsha Porter, eds. Video Movie Guide 1997. New York: Ballantine Publishing

Group, 1996.

This source is a video review guide for films out as of 1996. It states that there are two film versions of Lord of the Flies, a British version and an American version. This source aided in finding media interpretations of Golding's major work.

"William G. Golding." Geocities. Online. Yahoo. Available at:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6249/bio.htm. (12

February 1998).

This website focused on William Golding and his pursue in writing. The article discussed Golding and his views on life and how he used this in his writing of his books, specifically Lord of the Flies. The information was obtained from Grolier's Encyclopedia which is a well acknowledge encyclopedia.

"William Golding 1911-1993." Online. Yahoo. Available at: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/golding.htm.

(13 Feb.1998).

This was a decent web-site but it did not cover much about William Golding. The author took a few quotes from Golding's book, Lord of the Flies, and then copied author information from the 1193 edition of Grolier Encyclopedia. It was a juvenile page with little information.

"Works of William Golding: Introduction." The Electronic Library. Online. Yahoo. Available at:

http://www.elibrary.com/yahoolligans/10044/fetch/flies_03.htm. (12 February 1998).

The main emphasis on this website was on the interpretation of Lord of the Flies. It began with a brief biography of Golding and his successful career. It continues with brief summaries of Golding's lesser known works, but the main focus is on Lord of the Flies. This site was helpful by showing how Golding wrote Lord of the Flies.