| Edition |
[1st American ed.]. |
| Description |
175 pages 21 cm |
| Contents |
The hot gates -- Crosses -- Copernicus -- The English Channel -- Shakespeare's birthplace -- Digging for pictures -- Egypt from my inside -- Fable -- In my ark -- Islands -- Astronaut by gaslight -- Headmasters -- Tolstoy's mountain -- On the crest of the wave -- A touch of insomnia -- The glass door -- Body and soul -- Gradus ad Parnassum -- Billy the Kid -- The ladder and the tree. |
| Summary |
Twenty selections from the author's short prose which he considers his best: essays on teaching, sailing, the classical world, America, and two autobiographical pieces. |
| Processing Action |
commitment to retain 20151208 pda OTUTLD |
| Subject |
English essays.
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English essays. (OCoLC)fst00910809
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Golding, William, 1911-1993. Hot gates. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, ©1965 (OCoLC)812153433 |
| ISBN |
0156421801 |
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9780156421805 |
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