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Title: Fire Down Below (Isis Series) by William Golding ISBN: 1-85089-765-4 Publisher: Isis Audio Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: 3rd part of trilogy and doesn't stand alone
Comment: Wonderful prose, beautifully observed character study, as WG slips into the skin of an extremely priggish and snobbish early twenties aristocrat as he comes of age and begins to understand a little more of the virtues of the ordinary people around him. Sea journeys of that era were long, tedious, largely uneventful and extremely uncomfortable. All 3 books in the trilogy carry this perfectly: the maritime atmosphere is conveyed as perfectly as the arrogant character of the narrator. However, the tedium of the journey also comes across in the virtually non-existent plot which makes the books drag on somewhat. It is probably, though, as brilliant description of the English class system at the start of the 19th century as you will read. I believe that the books in Trilogies should be able to stand alone, if they are to be sold separately, & on that basis, this trilogy definitely fails. I'm glad I read it as a single 750 page tome.
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