Lord of the Flies

Time period?

Please explain the time period in which the novel was written?

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We really don't know the time period. There has been a fictional nuclear war. Many critics suggest it is set sometime in the mid 1950's.. The story was written around WW2 and descriptions of the plane and military put it around then.

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