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| Author | : Richard Hughes |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1972-06 |
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| ISBN | : 9780884111283 |
"Republished 1978 by special arrangement"--T.p. verso.
| Author | : Richard Hughes |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2010-06-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590173716 |
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.
| Author | : Paul Osborn |
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| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1946 |
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| Author | : Richard Hughes |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2016-04-20 |
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| ISBN | : 9781532846106 |
A High Wind in Jamaica, first published as The Innocent Voyage in 1929, is a classic coming-of-age novel. The story centers on the five children of the Bas-Thornton family, living on a plantation in late nineteenth-century Jamaica. Following a devastating hurricane, their parents send the children to England aboard a merchant ship which is captured by pirates shortly after the ship sets sail. What follows is an intense, gripping story of children forced to deal with difficult situations and with emotions they are not yet equipped to handle. The book is considered to have set the stage for later novels such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and was the subject of a 1965 movie of the same name. Included in this edition is an Introduction by Isabel Paterson and four illustrations from the 1932 edition.
| Author | : Richard Hughes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 1930 |
| Genre | : Carribean Area |
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| Author | : Richard Arthur Hughes |
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| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 1932 |
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| Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2006-05-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1101218835 |
"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.
| Author | : Richard Hughes |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1947 |
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| Author | : Richard Arthur Warren Hughes |
| Publisher | : Clipper Audio |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Child psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781471207273 |
Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, A High Wind in Jamaica tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached and haunting quality. Published to great acclaim in 1929, Richard Hughes' first novel became a bestseller. Doing away with Victorian sentimental visions of childhood, it paved the way for later works such as Golding's Lord of the Flies.
| Author | : Susanne Zhanial |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2019-12-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9004416099 |
Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif in British literature and Hollywood movies through the lens of postmodern film theories.
