Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
Salinger\'s The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern though.
Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.
D.
Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication.
Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature