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The top 100 // The Guardian, Thursday March 1, 2007.

This article deals with forms and ways of reconsidering traditional motif in the novels "Lord of the flies" by W.Golding and "Queen of stones" by E. Tennant in comparative aspect. The authors created new variants of "Robinson motive".

Key words: traditional motif, "Robinson motive", "anti-Robinson motive", anti-utopia.