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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes; Francine Prose; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A High Wind in Jamaica about?
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 twentiet
Who reads A High Wind in Jamaica?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Richard Hughes; Francine Prose; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781446433980
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Sea Stories, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (6,371 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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