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Rites of Passage

William Golding

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Release: April 15, 1982

ISBN: 0571117880

ISBN 13: 9780571117888

Rites of Passage

William Golding

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Release: April 15, 1982

ISBN: 0571117880

ISBN 13: 9780571117888

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