Lord of the Flies from 1923 to 2005. Published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" was Golding's first novel. Although it did not have great success after being released—selling fewer than three thousand copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print—it soon went on to become a best-seller. It has been adapted to film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook, and once in Filipino by Lupita A. Concio (1975). The book takes place in the midst of an unspecified war. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (novel) from a "forbidden valley" hidden in the mountains. His lion ally Jad-bal-ja puts in an appearance late in the book. "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" marks an important transition in the plot-type presented in the Tarzan series, presaged by the earlier "Tarzan the Untamed". Previous novels dealt primarily with the ape-man's own affairs and family; beginning with this novel, he becomes an apparently rootless adventurer serving as a savior and enabler of a cast of secondary characters which changes in each book. While a few previously established and new characters continue to appear, notably the lion Jad-bal-Ja, the monkey Nkima,