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Fire Down Below: With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning

Fire Down Below: With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning

by Victoria Glendinning (Introduction), William Golding (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

This is 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 0571298559
ISBN 13: 9780571298556
Book Overview: Fire Down Below is the final volume in William Golding's Sea Trilogy. The first book in the trilogy, Rites of Passage, won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1980.

Author Bio
William Golding (1911-1993) was a Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies, published originally in 1954 and adapted for film in 1963. His other works include The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), The Spire (1964), Rites of Passage (1980), The Double Tongue (published posthumously in 1995) a now rare volume, Poems (1934) and the essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target. Golding was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before his writing career, Golding was a schoolmaster. He was also a keen actor, musician and small-boat sailor. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 .