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 ofa 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 other worldly realities of childhood.
Author: Richard Hughes
RICHARD HUGHES (1900–1976) attended Oxford and lived for most of his life in a castle in Wales. His other books include The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess, the first two volumes of “The Human Predicament,” an unfinished trilogy about the rise of German Fascism and the onset of World War II.
Download Address:
http://www.en8848.com.cn/d/file/soft/Fiction/General/201006/b253fde1eb643225b7110e3835a5da70.rar |
|
Author：
