num_pages: 178
description: Three short novels show Golding at his subtle, ironic, mysterious best. The Scorpion God depicts a challenge to primal authority as the god-ruler of an ancient civilization lingers near death. Clonk Clonk is a graphic account of a crippled youth's triumph over his tormentors in a primitive matriarchal society. Envoy Extraordinary is a tale of Imperial Rome where the emperor loves his illegitimate son more than his own arrogant, loutish heir.
language: English
title: The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels
titlecomplete: The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels
genres: Historical, Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Egypt, British Literature
ratings_count: 670
publisher: Faber and Faber