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Focusing on ancient civilizations, the English novelist creates three tales which dramatize the follies of man
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Egypt fascinated Golding all his life. Here, in the first of these three stories, Golding recreates the world of ancient Egypt at the time of the earliest pharaohs.
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William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, and also took part in the pursuit of the Bismarck. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954.He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993. The Double Tongue, a novel left in draft at his death, was published in June 1995.
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0745171044
- ISBN 13 9780745171043
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels (New Portway Large Print Books)
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ISBN 13: 9780745171043
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