The title story of The Scorpion God is set in Ancient Egypt and features the custom of the mummification of pharaohs. In his introduction to the new edition, the poet Craig Raine writes that Golding is ‘concerned to enforce the qualia of history, to bring the picture to painful life, to animate the long ago, to make us taste the tannins, experience the enzymes of a vanished time’.
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