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The scorpion god: three short novels

โœ Scribed by William Golding

Book ID
100112439
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013;1971
Tongue
English
Weight
115 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0571305016

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โœฆ Synopsis

His marvellously funny - though characteristically unsparing - view is combined with his vivid realisation of the dust, colour and blazing sunlight of a world he had imagined since childhood.

'Clonk Clonk' plunges us into an even more ancient way of life, primitive, delightful, matriarchal. It contains one of Golding's most appealing female characters, as well as a fascinating and surprising portrayal of masculinity.

'Envoy Extraordinary' brings to life the court of a Roman emperor, nameless, benign yet accustomed to power. He is confronted by a brilliant but unsophisticated Greek whose fertile inventions, centuries before their time, include printing, the pressure cooker, and explosives. This story, later adapted by Golding as his play 'The Brass Butterfly', is fastidiously comic, philosophical and, as always with Golding, full of narrative irony.

All three stories show Golding as a gentle satirist, bringing the past colourfully before us, with...

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