Rites of Passage
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
278 pages, 5 editions
English edition · First published 1980 by Macmillan · ISBN 9780374526405
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Editions
5 editions
English
- Rites of Passage · Macmillan · 1980 · ISBN 9780374526405 This page
- Rites of Passage · Faber & Faber · 2013 · ISBN 9780571297245
- Rites of Passage · Faber and Faber · 2013 · ISBN 9780571298549
- Rites of Passage · Playboy Paperbacks · 1982 · ISBN 9780867210613
- Rites of Passage · Faber · 1980 · ISBN 9780571117888
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