<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 17 September 1954 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 571 - 05686 - 5 (first edition, paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 47677622 </Td> </Tr> <P> Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize - winning British author William Golding . The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves . </P>

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