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Intraprendete un viaggio accattivante all'inizio del XIX secolo, dove avventura, tensione e commento sociale si intrecciano. Seguite le vite a bordo di una nave da guerra ricca di personaggi diversi, dagli ufficiali agli emigranti, ed esplorate gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana in spazi ristretti. Queste narrazioni approfondiscono i temi dell'onore, della vergogna e della lotta per la sopravvivenza contro il mare pericoloso e i demoni interiori.

Fire Down Below
Close quarters
Faber Fiction Classics: Rites of Passage

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. Faber Fiction Classics: Rites of Passage

    • 278pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura

    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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  2. Close quarters

    William Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. "A stunning piece of writing as exciting as any thriller." - Frank Muir. Sunday Times. (from front cover)

    Close quarters2
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  3. Fire Down Below

    • 313pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura

    The final part of Golding's Sea Trilogy. A decrepit man-of-war is on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney, blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. After a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire is smouldering below decks.

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