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Rites of Passage (Faber Fiction Classics) (Paperback)

by William Golding (Author)
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  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (9 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571209432
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571209439
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 277,160 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew.

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, sad and entertaining- dark side of humans, 21 Nov 2002
By "lexi_wades" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rites of Passage (Sea Trilogy) (Paperback)
Golding continues the theme of the inherent barbarity that lurks under mans' facade which he illustrated incredibly well in The Lord of The Flies. ROP is not LOTF equal- there is some confusion with the narrative and the two main characters are not easy to sympathise with. However Golding uses this to ask questons of the reader and creates brutality and humanism in unlikely places.
This is a fab book though not always pleasent. I would recommend it to someone who wants something a bit more deep than the normal paperback but still needs an engaging story that has the capacity to really move.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully evocative and moving, 3 Jan 2007
By Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane "almac1975" (Fife, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I read this book when it was first published and have since revisited it a couple of times. It is a wonderfully imagined account of a sea voyage to Australia at the time of Napoleonic Wars. The very mixed group of emigrants experience conditions aboard which are completely convincing - cramped, unpleasant, smelly and highly dangerous - with an equally covincing hierarchy of naval personnel. Everyone is interesting, everyone is fully characterised. Mostly it is seen through the eyes of young Mr. Talbot, who is on his way to make a distinguished career in the colonies.
He has nothing but contempt for the apparently ridiculous clergyman, Colley, but in that he sadly mistaken, as he discovers when he finds and reads Colley's journal, and it is in Colley that the tragedy in the book lies. This is a most original book written by a very great novelist, and it deals as always with Golding with the great theme of good and evil revealed through the characters, their attitudes and how they behave. It won the Booker prize and was a very worthy winner. It is just as powerful today as it was then.
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning exploration of enlightenment, 3 May 2001
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This review is from: Rites of Passage (Sea Trilogy) (Paperback)
This marvellous novel explores the beginnings of the development of the central character from a prissy, snobbish, upper-class boy to a rather more enlightened, broad-minded young man. This at a time when British society was also being forced to go through a process of discovery. The characters involved seem to represent the various strands in British culture at the time. The tragedy of the Rev Colley that emerges only helps to develop our young (anti-)hero and to expose the hypocrisy of the society he inhabits. This book, along with two subsequent volumes, are perhaps one of the greatest contributions ot English literature in the 20th Century and deserve to be seen thus.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A cleverly woven second volume to Lord of the Flies
Talbot a well-born young gentleman writes a journal documenting his passage on a sailing ship bound for Australia. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Talc Demon

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and atmospheric
This is a slow-moving but highly atmospheric book. Like 'the Inheritors' Golding uses a change of perspective towards the end of the story to radically change the atmosphere. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Technically superb but a little dull
Golding is a master of the English language and it shows here, with a vivid account of life at sea in the 19th Century. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2003 by del49

1.0 out of 5 stars A frustrating read
Two diary entries charting the social downward spiral of a reverend on board a ship bound for Australia. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2003 by Jus

5.0 out of 5 stars A profound, sad tale
This book starts off as a comedy of manners aboard a ship bound for Australia, but ends as a profound, moving and enlightening tale of tragedy. Highly recommended.
Published on 26 Feb 1999

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