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Underappreciated Literature: Richard Hughes
Friday, August 11, 2006
The 1929 Richard Hughes novel A High Wind in Jamaica has all the trappings of a summer blockbuster: earthquakes, hurricanes, murder, and pirates. It’s also great literature—a book about five British children, and what their misadventures reveal about human nature. Francine Prose, who wrote the introduction for an edition of the book published by the New York Review of Books, joins us on today’s edition of our summer Underappreciated Literature series.
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