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Fino ai confini della Terra

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.

Darkness Visible
Close Quarters
Faber Fiction Classics: Rites of Passage

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 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. A sequel to RITES OF PASSAGE, set on board a ship on its way to Australia. A ball is held on the ship whilst it is becalmed in a wilderness of heat and sea mists, and under the influence of this strange atmosphere, soon the passengers and the very ship itself start to go to pieces.

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  3. Darkness Visible

    • 265pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura

    A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding' s book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

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