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William Golding

Fire Down Below

English · Paperback

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Description

The third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Little but rope holds the disintegrating hull together. And after a risky operation to reset its foremast, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks.

Summary

The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.' Sunday Times'Awesome ...Ambivalent, unresolved, walking a tightrope between reason and spirituality, tragedy and comedy ...

Product details

Authors	William Golding
Assisted by	Victoria Glendinning (Introduction)
Publisher	Faber & Faber

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback
Released	07.11.2013

EAN	9780571298556
ISBN	978-0-571-29855-6
No. of pages	368
Dimensions	130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
Subjects	Fiction > Narrative literature FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Adventure fiction, Navigation & Seamanship, Pacific Ocean, Navigation and seamanship

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