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Tot het einde van de aarde Reeks

Ga mee op een boeiende reis naar het begin van de 19e eeuw, waar avontuur, spanning en sociaal commentaar met elkaar verweven zijn. Volg de levens aan boord van een oorlogsschip vol diverse personages, van officieren tot emigranten, en verken de duisterdere kanten van de menselijke natuur in krappe ruimtes. Deze verhalen duiken in thema's als eer, schaamte en de strijd om te overleven tegen zowel de gevaarlijke zee als innerlijke demonen.

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

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  1. Faber Fiction Classics: Rites of Passage

    • 278bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen

    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

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    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.

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  3. Fire Down Below

    • 313bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    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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