Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage
ISBN-10
0374526400
ISBN-13
9780374526405
Series
Rites of Passage
Category
Fiction
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
1999-10-01
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
William Golding

Description

Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.

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