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In Lord of the Flies William Golding twice refers to The Coral Island. In chapter 2, Ralph voices the initial enthusiasm of all the boys stranded on an island free of adults, when he declares that it is all ‘like a book‘. At once there is a clamour all around him:
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© 1986 Raymond Wilson
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Wilson, R. (1986). R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858). In: Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08348-0_2
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