in the head.”?“The basic point my generation discovered about man was that there was more evil in him than could be accounted for simply by social pressure.”?When the war was over, he returned to his former post as a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth School in 1945.?Although he had written a few books at that time, he was essful except for a few minor reviews and magazine articles. ?However, at the same time he did produce 3 manuscriptnovels.?In 1954, he published his first novel Lord of the Flies after having been turned down by 21 publishers.?The book became an immediate ess in the western countries, through which Golding achieved international fame and wide critical acceptance.?This novel is universally considered his masterpiece.