Happy Birthday Piggy

[alice wellintown]

On this day in 1954 William Golding's first novel, *The Lord of the Flies*,
was published. It was rejected by twenty-one publishers and poorly
reviewed, but by the 60s it was a cult novel and a career-maker. If it
confirms Golding's view that "man produces evil as a bee produces honey,"
it is not the whole story: "I am a universal pessimist but a cosmic
optimist," he said in his Nobel Acceptance Speech.

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