Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage - Paperback

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Rites of Passage - Paperback

Rites of Passage - Paperback

by William Golding
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by William Golding (Author)

Winner of the Booker Prize

William Golding's To the Ends of the Earth trilogy is now a BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill.

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.

To the Ends of the Earth:
1. Rites of Passage
2. Close Quarters
3. Fire Down Below

Author Biography

William Golding (1911-93) was born in Cornwall, England. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 and became an international bestseller. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.54 x 5.56 IN
Publication Date: October 01, 1999
Award: Man Booker Prize (1980)
ISBN9780374526405
Author William Golding
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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About William Golding

William Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University. His first book, Poems, was published in 1935. Following a stint in the Royal Navy during World War II, Golding wrote Lord of the Flies while teaching school. It was the first of several works, including the novels Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and The Inheritors and a play, The Brass Butterfly, which led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

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