William Golding 
The Scorpion God [EPUB ebook] 
Three Short Novels

The three short novels in this collection,
The Scorpion God, show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. In  »The Scorpion God » we see the world of ancient Egypt at the time of the earliest Pharaohs.  »Clonk Clonk » is a graphic account of a crippled youth »s triumph over his tormentors in a primitive matriarchal society. And  »Envoy Extraordinary » is a tale of Imperial Rome where the emperor loves his illegitimate grandson more than his own arrogant, loutish heir.