Fire Down Below

william golding

The third volume of william goldings acclaimed sea trilogya 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 nothing but rope holds the disintegrating hull together and after a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks

Genres fictionhistorical fictionclassicsliteraturenovelsnobel prize20th centurybritish literatureadventureliterary fiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1989

Series

To the Ends of the Earth

This edition

Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1998 by Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571191468
ASIN: 0571191460
Language: English

About the author

william golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".