The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces

william golding

Vintage paperback

Genres essaysnonfictionhistoryshort stories

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1965

This edition

Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1967 by Bookthrift Co
ISBN: 9780156421805
ASIN: 0156421801
Language: English

About the author

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".