Rites of Passage by William Golding

298 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction classics historical reflective slow-paced
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Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But...

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