Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. The novel addresses the following themes, Civilization vs. Savagery, Loss of Innocence, Struggle to Build Civilization, Man's Inherent Evil, Dangers of Mob Mentality, War and the Future of Mankind.