- Immigrants, Ocean travel, Fiction, Fiction in Spanish
During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- August 7, 2000
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Playboy, White Pine Press (NY)
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780571209439
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The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), which is consistently regarded as an effective and disturbing portrayal of the fragility of civilization. **Childhood and college years** Golding was born in Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His father, Alex, was a schoolmaster, while his mother, Mildred, was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement (the movement for women's right to vote). As a boy, his favorite authors included H. G. Wells (1866–1946), Jules
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