The final book in a classic series that began with the Man Booker Prize-winningRites of Passage
To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbot's journal--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship.
An instant maritime classic, and one of Golding's finest achievements, the trilogy was adapted into a major 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
William Golding(191193) 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.
Praise forRites of Passage
Beautifully poised between comedy and dread...splendidly, elegantly phrased. -Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
It takes a special kind of genius to be able to recreate such convincing early 19th-century prose... A bravura display of writing skill. -The Guardian
A first-rate historical novel that is also a novel of ideas--a taut, beautifully controlled short book with none of the windiness or costumed pageantry so often associated with fiction attempts to reanimate the past... [It is] the best of Goldings novels since Lord of the Flies. -The New York Review of Books
As skillful and resonant as the best of William Goldings orther novels, which are among the best written by any Englishman these past twenty-five years. -The New York Times Book Review
An extraordinary tour de force that has something in common with MelvillesBilly Budd, ConradsNigger ofl†
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