Più di un milione di libri, a un clic di distanza!
Bookbot

Fino ai confini della Terra Serie

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.

Rites of passage
Close Quarters
Fire Down Below

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    Rites of passage

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
    3,4(106)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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.

    Rites of passage
  2. 2

    Close Quarters

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
    3,9(484)Aggiungi una valutazione

    In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fecirc;te-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull. The sequel to Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, the second volume in Golding's acclaimed sea trilogy, is imbued with his extraordinary sense of menace. Half-mad with fear, with drink, with love and opium, everyone on this leaky, unsound hulk is 'going to pieces'. And in a nightmarish climax the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship begins to come apart at the seams.

    Close Quarters
  3. 3

    Fire Down Below

    3,9(12)Aggiungi una valutazione

    This novel completes Golding's trilogy, begun with "Rites of Passage" and continued with "Close Quarters". The author won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" and was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1983.

    Fire Down Below