Rites of Passage Contributor(s): Golding, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374526400 ISBN-13: 9780374526405 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 1980 Click for more in this series: To the Ends of the Earth |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sea Stories |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 80016809 |
Age Level: 8-12 |
Grade Level: 3-7 |
Series: To the Ends of the Earth |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.56" W x 8.54" L (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Features: Price on Product |
Awards: Man Booker Prize, Winner, Novel, 1980 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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: |
Contributor Bio(s): Golding, William: - 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. |
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