Rites of Passage
Now reissued with a new jacket the first volume of Golding's sea trilogy, which follows the trials and fortunes of a warship captain bound for Australia. Whilst at sea he writes a journal to send back to England in which he records the mounting tensions onboard ship. From the author of LORD OF...
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Now reissued with a new jacket the first volume of Golding's sea trilogy, which follows the trials and fortunes of a warship captain bound for Australia. Whilst at sea he writes a journal to send back to England in which he records the mounting tensions onboard ship. From the author of LORD OF THE FLIES.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374526405 (0374526400)
ASIN: 374526400
Publish date: October 1st 1999
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Nobel Prize,
Australia
Series: To the Ends of the Earth (#1)
It may be fancy pants, but it's still crap. Yes, sir.
The main character is travelling from England to America, and in his letters home details ship life and his fellow passengers. I tried to read this several times, but just couldn't get into it. I'm just too tired of self-satisfied, naive prigs.
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