Publishers rejected the original manuscript for “Lord of the Flies” many times, yet the story still sparks a buzz today. Author William Golding later won the Nobel Prize in Literature William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies Bettmann / Getty Images A new adaptation of William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies is airing on Netflix for U.S. audiences. The four-part miniseries, written by Jack Thorne and originally aired by BBC, follows a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island as their efforts to govern themselves unravel into savagery. “It is the book that changed me,” Thorne, who first read Lord of the Flies at age 11, tells NPR ’s A Martínez and Ava Pukatch.…