| Author Quoted | Richard Hughes |
| Title Quoted | High Wind in Jamaica |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/05/30 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Chatto and Windus. 1929 |
| Quotation | I have lately read some Joseph Conrad and he is always a Master. Did you ever read anything of Richard Hughes, High Wind in Jamaica? I used to use him [as an English teacher]. I am interested in the new stuff out of Germany. A finely wrought short story by a lad called Wolfsiegfried Schnurr (what a name!) was in Encounter lately, called "The Maneuver." Dostoevsky is always tops. Another of the new Germans is Ernst Muenger, and I am liking what little bits of his I see. I want to see more. For short stories, Bernard Malamud has done some fine things "¦ |
| Quotation Source | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 236 |
| Letter to | Sister Therese Lenfoehr, s.d.s. |
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