A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne.
'A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man . . .It is highly individual yet profoundly modest; it has an unusual, slightly angular candour, full of painful knowledge and a beautiful humanity . . . event the slightest piece bears the mark of his rare, austere mind, his remarkable imagination . . . Even these occasional essays are enough to remind us that . . . there is not, at the moment, a writer to touch him.' New Society
- ISBN10 0571064450
- ISBN13 9780571064458
- Publish Date October 1965
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 175
- Language English