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Tables of Contents for Understanding Lord of the Flies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Literary Analysis
1
26
The Ignoble Savage
27
26
The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, vol. 2 (1719)
38
4
Daniel Defoe
The White Man's Burden (1899)
42
4
Rudyard Kipling
The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (2nd ed., 1845)
46
7
Charles Darwin
Education
53
36
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857)
72
4
Thomas Hughes
Mike (1909)
76
3
P. G. Wodehouse
Summoned by Bells (1960)
79
3
John Betjeman
An Interview with Noriko M---, ``Japanese School Culture'' (September 9, 1999)
82
7
The Adventure Story
89
34
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812--13)
98
6
Johann David Wyss
The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, vol. 1 (1719)
104
3
Daniel Defoe
The Coral Island (1858)
107
7
R. M. Ballantyne
Treasure Island, Chapter 28 (1883)
114
2
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, Chapter 18 (1883)
116
7
Robert Louis Stevenson
Religion
123
20
The Old Testament
130
4
The New Testament
134
3
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
137
2
John Calvin
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer
139
4
Biology, Evolution, and Lord of the Flies
143
24
The Origin of Species (1859)
152
5
Charles Darwin
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
157
10
Edward O. Wilson
War and Postwar
167
36
Prospect and Reality: Great Britain, 1945-1955 (1985)
179
6
T.E.B. Howarth
Talk: Conversations with William Golding (1970)
185
5
Jack I. Biles
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg [sic] Military Tribunals (1950)
190
13
Index
203