1989 Fire Down Below

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of the work.

In publisher's original blue cloth. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

Written by British novelist, poet, and playwright Sir William Golding, best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies. Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime, and was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, and knighted in 1988. 

This novel is the third volume of Golding's acclaimed sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, including the other volumes Rites of Passage and Close Quarters.

The narrative follows a decrepit warship as it sails the last stretch of a voyage to Sydney Cove, where it faces winds, storms, and ice. Nothing but rope holds the ship together, and after a risky operation to reset its' foremast, an unseen fire begins burning down below.