Lord of the Flies

The basis is decent, although casts many doubts. I can get over most of the content – but my biggest issue was I found a majority of the prose to be garbled. I kept having to reread things, it was frustrating and it took the enjoyment out of most of it. I did like the passage about Ralph's longing for grooming though, very good imagery.

Additional complaints:
It was very hard for me to have a idea of the passage of time. I understand that some of that may have been purposeful, but I'd like to think that a group of British boys could keep from becoming full-fledged savages within the space of a few weeks and especially (excuse the classism) if some of them were from families that were well enough off to have them be choir boys (or really anything that requires uniforms).
I don't have a sense of historical setting, so I am left to assume – the 1940's? It was said fighting was going on...so, sometime then?
Why were they on a plane anyway? I know that Britain sent its children out to the country during times of war when the major cities were being bombed, but off the island? That's far-fetched (unless there's backstory). So there must be a reason for a plane with mostly children on it (it surely was mostly children, because only minors survived).
Maybe it was my copy, but I found it incongruous for it to use Britishisms, but not British spellings (e.g. mold, instead of “mould”).