High Wind in Jamaica

Informationen zum Autor Richard Hughes was born in 1900 and educated at Chaterhouse School and Oriel College, Oxford. A highly original and idiosyncratic writer, he wrote poems and plays as well as novels, but it is for these that he is best remembered, the most famous of which was his first, A High Wind in Jamaica , published in 1929. A remarkable man, he could number Masefield, Yeats, T.E. Lawrence, Robert Graves, Augustus John and Dylan Thomas amongst his friends and acquaintances. Married to the painter Frances Bazley in 1932, he died in 1976. Klappentext New edition. Zusammenfassung On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose – sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. Innocence is their protection, but as life in the care of pirates reveals its dangers, the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached quality.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780099437437
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943743-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Crime, Jamaica, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Sea stories, Historical adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Caribbean Sea