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Richard Hughes A High Wind In Jamaica. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 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. Publication date 1932 Topics SV Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English Item Size

High-seas piracy and the complex psychological lives of children are brought together, quite strikingly, in Richard Hughes's 1929 novel "A High Wind in Jamaica." This book looks ahead to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" in the way it suggests that the outward innocence of children may conceal a capacity for cruel and wicked acts; but. But, in 1999, Modern Library issued its list of the 100 best works of fiction for the past century and lodged in at number 71 was Hughes' High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica 1st/1st 1929 Richard Thornton Books

A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes "A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes is a novel written in the early 20th century As a result, a fine novel has now, to some extent, been resurrected. Richard Hughes was born in 1900 and educated at Chaterhouse School and Oriel College, Oxford

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes book word. A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965 Publication date 1932 Topics SV Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English Item Size

A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes Canongate Books. A high wind in Jamaica by Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976 As a result, a fine novel has now, to some extent, been resurrected.