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Violence
Some
Violence; humiliation leading to death
Language
Barely any
Period language
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual humiliation; a disturbing scene below decks
Substance Use
Barely any
Shipboard drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of class, shame, and the capacity of communities to destroy individuals
What this book is about
The first of Golding's To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (1980 Booker Prize), narrated by Edmund Talbot in the form of a journal kept on a sea voyage to the Southern Ocean. The Reverend Colley is destroyed by shame. Features shipboard violence and sexual humiliation. For adults.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Sexual humiliation
Psychological violence
Death from shame
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