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by William Golding

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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

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  • Title Rites of Passage
  • Author William Golding
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, N . Y.
  • Publication date 1999-10-01
  • ISBN 9780374526405 / 0374526400
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 0.7 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 80016809
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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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