The Longest Book — Yet the Shortest Story — I’ve Ever Read

“O implacable march of human society! Destroying men and souls in its way! Ocean, repository of all that the law lets fall! Ominous disappearance of help! O moral death! The sea is the inexorable night into which the penal code casts its victims. The sea is measureless misery. The soul drifting in that sea may …

The Most Symbolically Rich Novel Ever Written

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” -William Golding, Lord of the Flies The review title speaks for itself. Lord of the Flies is simply the most symbolically rich novel ever written. Each element -- whether a character, object, or phenomenon -- has an allegorical meaning. However, among all this, the main theme isn't lost -- if anything, …