Cup of Gold

Description:

A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the author's prodigious body of work. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. And he had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja, and to conquer Panama, the "cup of gold."

subjects: Fiction,  Morgan, Henry, in fiction,  Governors,  Buccaneers,  Governors in fiction,  Caribbean Area in fiction,  Buccaneers in fiction,  Morgan, Henry, in fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, general,  Jamaica, fiction,  Fiction, biographical

People: Henry Morgan Sir (1635?-1688),  Henry Morgan (1635?-1688)

Places: Jamaica,  Caribbean Area