Richard Hughes

Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, "A High Wind in Jamaica" tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached and haunting quality.

A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early 1920s, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic Welsh family who has come of age in the aftermath of World War I. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young girl, Augustine takes refuge in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives. There his hopeless love for his devout cousin Mitzi blinds him to the hate that will lead to the rise of German fascism. The book reaches a climax with a brilliant description of the Munich putsch and a disturbingly intimate portrait of Adolph Hitler.The Fox in the Attic , like its no less remarkable sequel The Wooden Shepherdess , offers a richly detailed, Tolstoyan overview of the modern world in upheaval. At once a novel of ideas and an exploration of the dark spaces of the heart, it is a book in which the past returns in all its original uncertainty and strangeness.

The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of tobacco—the ship departs for the Panama Canal from Norfolk, Virginia, on a beautiful autumn day. Before long, the weather turns unexpectedly rough—rougher in fact than even the most experienced members of the crew have ever encountered. The Archimedes, it turns out, has been swept up in the vortex of an immense hurricane, and for the next four days it will be battered and mauled by wind and waves as it is driven wildly off course. Caught in an unremitting struggle for survival, both the crew and the ship will be tested as never before.Based on detailed research into an actual event, Richard Hughes’s tale of high suspense on the high seas is an extraordinary story of men under pressure and the unexpected ways they prove their mettle—or crack. Yet the originality, art, and greatness of In Hazard stem from something else: Hughes’s eerie fascination with the hurricane itself, the inhuman force around which this wrenching tale of humanity at its limits revolves. Hughes channels the furies of sea and sky into a piece of writing that is both apocalyptic and analytic. In Hazard is an unforgettable, defining work of modern adventure.

A wanderer takes refuge from the rain in an abandoned remote cottage.Short story.

A book of modern fairy-tales from the author of A High Wind in Jamaica, dealing with such diverse subjects as living inside a whale, giving off darkness the way a lamp gives off light, being turned into a giraffe, finding Nothing in the dining room, and traveling into other people's houses by going through the telephone cord.-------Contents are Living in W'ales, The Dark Child, As They Were Driving, The Gardner and the White Elephants, The Man with a Green Face, Telephone Travel, The Glass Ball Country, Nothing, The Hasty Cook, The Three Sheep, The Spider's Palace, The Ants, The Invitation, The Three Innkeepers, Inhaling.

A wooden doll runs away from the girl she belongs to and buys herself a child with whom she can play.

A collection of thirty short stories.

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Can Churches of Christ Be Saved?At the turn of the millennium, Reclaiming a Heritage , a small book with a powerful message, examined the future and changing identity of Churches of Christ, exploring the rich biblical resources that once anchored this tradition and could anchor it still. However, many in Churches of Christ have become increasingly comfortable wearing cultural blinders, resulting in a distortion of the movement's original vision. This new edition of Reclaiming a Heritage invites Christians to consider a radical answer from the past that true of disciples of Jesus must vigorously stand against cultural compromises in favor of God's Word.

‘A delightful journey through gentler, happier times – Richard Hughes does for the cure of souls what James Herriot once did for the cure of sick animals’Michael Poulton, Tony Award NomineeRichard’s ordination to the sacred ministry is life changing. Though he is not entirely clear as to what that implies.Vindicating the Tudor establishment of the Church of England, he serves his curacy at the magnificent Mold Parish Church, commissioned in the 1490s by Lady Margaret Beaufort to celebrate her son Henry’s accession to the English throne.Richard is intrigued by the much older, less evidently regimented tradition of the Celtic saints whose names are commemorated throughout towns and villages of Wales. Nevertheless, Richard is also a curate in love, incurably, impossibly, passionately in love with the delightful Ann, a dedicated atheist and mathematician who is no less in love with him.Let battle commence.

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Richard Hughes, the Far East correspondent of the Sunday Times and The Economist, has lived in Hong Kong for many years. No one knows more about its history and it’s life today. His vivid survey of its past, its economic and social life (not to mention its nightlife, gastronomy and ‘characters’), and its prospects in the future. For the present edition Richard Hughes has revised it extensively in order to assess changes which have taken place in the last eight years. Among other things he takes into account the detente with Communist China and the admission of Peking to the United Nations; the end of the flow of refugees into Hong Kong; the startling revelations of corruption in the colony’s police force; and the changing economic tempo of the Far East. The book has been almost rewritten, but two things remain unchanged: Richard Hughes’ informal approach, witty and full of amusing anecdotes, and his remarkable ability to enlighten and inform without wasting words. Hong Kong, a Western colony on Chinese soil, is uniquely interesting, a microcosm of the confrontation between East and West. It demands the greater understanding provided here, with a rare combination of expertise and brio, by Richard Hughes.

First published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Probably the most important contribution to modern poetical theory is Mr. Robert Graves’ book On English Poetry. He grounds it upon Man as a Neurotic Animal. Poetry is to the poet, he argues, what dreams are to the ordinary man: a symbolical way, that is, of resolving those complexes which deadlock of emotion has produced. If this book meets with the success it deserves, it is probable that there will be a great deal of psycho-analytical criticism afloat, that the symbolic test will become the sole criterion of distinguishing the true from the fake poem; until some sort of ‘Metamorphic’ school arise, who defeat this by consciously faking their symbolism. I do not wish to oppose this thesis, but only to suggest that though true, it is only a partial truth: and that to make it the sole criterion of poetry would be damning: that as well as being a neurotic animal, Man is a Communicative Animal, and a Pattern-making Animal: that poetry cannot be traced simply to a sort of automatic psycho-therapy, but that these and many other causes are co-responsible. Indeed, though many of these poems may still prove poems within the meaning of Mr. Graves’ Act, I should be sorry that they should be read with no other purpose than indecently to detect my neuroses.

Barcelona. 21 cm. 187 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca juvenil', numero coleccion(42). Hughes, Richard 1900-1976. Cuentos. Traducción de Emiliano Ramos ; ilustraciones de Isabel Arechavala. Traducción The wonder dog. El palacio de la araña. ¡No me eches la culpa!. Biblioteca juvenil (Salvat Editores). 42 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8434586223

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II. He was sent to Europe twice. The first assignment in 1940 was short lived, as he joined the hopelessly ill equipped and overwhelmed Allied forces in France. The superior German army pushed them back to the English Channel at Dunkirk, and Hughes was one of some 300,000 troops miraculously rescued from the beach by a flotilla of small boats.In 1944 he returned to France as apart of the Allied invasion, this time as a Major commanding a battery of field guns. The contrast is apparent. Now they were a well equipped, superbly trained and coldly efficient force. With his field battery and associated infantry battalion, Hughes fought numerous battles right through Europe to reach Hamburg, at the final surrender of Germany in May, 1945.In Sheldrake, Richard Hughes recalls many fascinating memories in his personal account of those traumatic years.

Plays. The Sisters' Tragedy; A Comedy of Good and Evil; The Man Born to be Hanged; (The Phoenix Library No. 17)

Poetic Adolescence is a collection of poems based on the early teenage years of the life of the author, Richard Hughes.Each poem tells a story, a story of love, a story of coping with life, and a story of coming out of difficult times.The author has lived in the Welsh Valleys since he was born and the beauty of the nature around him is the inspiration for his work.

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Excerpt from Richard Hughes: An OmnibusThe earliest thing I can remember is sitting, at the head of a flight of steep stairs, playing with a red tin milk-cart. There was a gate at the top of the stairs, since this was the nursery floor; but it was Open. There was a room behind me, and in the room on my left my sister was sitting, playing also.The memory is simply a flash. I did not even during the course of it look round and actually see my sister; but I must have done so shortly before, since I was conscious she was there. The only time I remember her appearance was once when we both 'naughtily pushed our way through a hole in the garden fence. Another flash. She was in front of me that time.I do not remember much else of that period, seeing I had myself been born less than two years before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.