BEFORE THE STAND AND THE HUNGER GAMES,

BEFORE BATTLE ROYALE and YELLOWJACKETS, THERE WAS LORD OF THE FLIES.

An airplane crashes on a tropical island. The survivors, young schoolchildren from England, soon realize that the island is uninhabited.

“There are no adults anywhere.” They organize themselves, elect a leader, and establish rules to survive. At first, it seems like a dream adventure. But the games of the day are followed by the nightmares of the night. Some begin to believe that a beast haunts the island. Fear and violence start to emerge...

“What are we? Humans or animals?”

For the first time, the classic masterpiece by Nobel laureate William Golding, which the BBC included in its “100 Novels That Shaped Our World,” is adapted into a graphic novel by the renowned creator Aimée de Jongh.