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Rites of Passage
Contributor(s): Golding, William (Author)

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ISBN: 0374526400     ISBN-13: 9780374526405
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1980
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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
 
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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


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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