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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes 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, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590173718
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Sea Stories
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (6,371 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- A high wind in Jamaica, or, The innocent voyage (1972)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) (1999)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (1999)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (2010)
- A High Wind in Jamaica [The Innocent Voyage] (1928)
- A high wind in Jamaica (1998)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (1928)
- A High Wind In Jamaica: Or, The Innocent Voyage (2016)
- A High Wind In Jamaica (Vintage Classics) (2011)
- The innocent voyage: (A high wind in Jamaica) (1959)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (1989)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (1980)
- a High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (2015)
- A High Wind In Jamaica (1992)
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