Rites of Passage by William Golding *Booker Prize Fiction 1980

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ISBN
9780374526405
Book Title
Rites of Passage : a Novel
Book Series
To the Ends Of the Earth Ser.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Length
8.5 in
Edition
1
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
William Golding
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Literary, Historical, Sea Stories
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
278 Pages
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374526400
ISBN-13
9780374526405
eBay Product ID (ePID)
494688

Product Key Features

Edition
1
Book Title
Rites of Passage : a Novel
Number of Pages
278 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical, Sea Stories
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Author
William Golding
Book Series
To the Ends Of the Earth Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
80-016809
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
" Beautifully poised between comedy and dread ...splendidly, elegantly phrased." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "It takes a special kind of genius to be able to recreate such convincing early 19th-century prose... A bravura display of writing skill." - The Guardian "A first-rate historical novel that is also a novel of ideas--a taut, beautifully controlled short book with none of the windiness or costumed pageantry so often associated with fiction attempts to reanimate the past... [It is] the best of Golding's novels since Lord of the Flies ." - The New York Review of Books "As skillful and resonant as the best of William Golding's other novels, which are among the best written by any Englishman these past twenty-five years." - The New York Times Book Review " An extraordinary tour de force that has something in common with Melville's Billy Budd , Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus and even Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner ... Provides readers with still another instance of William Golding's virtuosity and moral stamina." - Philadelphia Inquirer
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Synopsis
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, Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize 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. 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. To the Ends of the Earth: 1. Rites of Passage 2. Close Quarters 3. Fire Down Below
LC Classification Number
PR6015.I3

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