Lord of the Flies. The Heirs

"Lord of the Flies" – a strange, frightening, and astonishing book.
A philosophical parable about the nature of evil.
The story of well-mannered boys suddenly finding themselves on a deserted island.

"The Heirs" – the second and, according to Golding, his most beloved novel, in which his reflections on the origin of evil, first articulated in "Lord of the Flies," are further developed.
The Pleistocene, 40,000 years BC. A tribe of Neanderthals, who have only recently learned to use fire and primitive tools and are just beginning to master speech, encounter a tribe of humans at the next stage of evolution – humans with remarkably sophisticated minds and amazing agility...