Civilization under pressure
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Civilization under pressure
A group of schoolboys are stranded on an uncharted island after a plane crash, with no adults to supervise them. Their attempt to organize life for themselves gives the novel its central tension: the effort to build order against the growing forces of fear and violence. The island setting puts questions of society, authority, and human nature into sharp focus, while the breakdown of the boys’ arrangements frames the book as both an adventure premise and a broader moral allegory. This hardcover belongs to Penguin’s Drop Caps series, featuring an illustrated letter on its cover.
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