Rites of Passage (FF Classics) - Softcover

Golding, William

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9780571209439: Rites of Passage (FF Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0571209432 ISBN 13: 9780571209439

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2001

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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, sinking 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.

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Rites of Passage

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Rites of Passage, from William Golding - the author of Lord of the Flies - the Booker Prize-winning novel and first instalment from the Sea Trilogy.

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