Richard Hughes
Born
in Weybridge, Surrey, The United Kingdom
April 19, 1900
Died
April 28, 1976
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A High Wind in Jamaica
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1929
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The Fox in the Attic (The Human Predicament, #1)
27 editions
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1961
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In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics)
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19 editions
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1938
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The Wooden Shepherdess (The Human Predicament, #2)
12 editions
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1973
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A Night at a Cottage
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1926
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The Spider's Palace and Other Stories
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6 editions
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1931
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Gertrude's Child
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The Wonder-Dog: The Collected Children's Stories of Richard Hughes
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6 editions
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1977
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Gertrude and the Mermaid
4 editions
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published
1968
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A Moment of Time
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1926
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“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
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“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
― A High Wind in Jamaica
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates.
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
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