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.
- ISBN13 9780571102327
- Publish Date 7 September 1973 (first published 1 January 1973)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 5 April 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English