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| Original Title: | Rites of Passage |
| ISBN: | 0571209432 (ISBN13: 9780571209439) |
| Series: | To the Ends of the Earth #1 |
| Characters: | Edmund Talbot, Reverend Colley, Zenobia Brocklebank, Captain Anderson, Miss Granham, Deverel, Cumbershum, Wheeler, Summers, Billy Rogers, Mr. Prettiman |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1980) |
William Golding
Paperback | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 3.6 | 3301 Users | 182 Reviews
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| Title | : | Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth #1) |
| Author | : | William Golding |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Faber and Faber (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Nobel Prize. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature |
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The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.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, stinking 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.
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Ratings: 3.6 From 3301 Users | 182 ReviewsNotice About Books Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth #1)
A slow moving novel that took much perseverance to finish. The story unfolds through the writings of Edmund Talbot as he chronicles events during a sea voyage to Australia.Found it difficult to empathise with any of the characters present in this novel. A novel of class distinctions and prejudices.From the Boxall 1000 list. Having not read the author before must admit to being a tad disappointed.Ugh. This will be my shortest review yet, because saying too much just ruins it. This book was absolutely brilliant, and utterly awful, and I really hated it. Which was, I'm assuming, Golding's purpose. And the plot movements that made it brilliant and awful work best when they unfold naturally, so this is where I'll stop.Other than to say that Golding's narration is fantastic: he is excellent at writing the journal of a pompous man-child (the book is about a young, wealthy man on his way to a
Loved this book! Going to start the second book in the trilogy next. Somehow I had not been aware that Golding had won a Nobel.
2.5 stars. A lesser Golding novel (hard to believe it won the Booker prize). Gets much better in the second half with the change of perspective but is missing the abstract hallucinatory prose of his best work because of the chosen narrative device to tell the story first person through journal entries.
I haven't rated this as I didn't get too far before realising I wasn't willing to persevere with it. So I can't say I've read it either. Mainly it was the style of writing that I found laborious. Or perhaps I'm just lazy and couldn't be bothered re-reading sentence after sentence to follow its meaning. Whatever!
My first Golding, so cant say if this is a decline from his early famous novels or not. I enjoyed it enormously though - beautifully written, interesting flawed 1st person narrator and great secondary characters, brilliantly realised. Interesting to compare this to the Patrick OBrian novels: this is set in the same time period and similarly focusses on masculine relationships at sea. Goldings language is richer and more densely literary. Personally I enjoyed the plot, but perhaps it feels a
An epistolary novel that becomes comedic and then tragic, after beginning as neither. Edmund Talbot, a pompous young aristocrat, writes journal entries to his godfather narrating the events aboard a ship headed to Australia in the early 19th century. Golding's language is flowery, and the pretentiousness is compounded by the italicizing of certain words in the text, mostly marine terms. We are introduced to a variety of passengers and crew: the obsequious Reverend Colley, whom nearly everyone
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