Cup of Gold

By John Steinbeck
Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck digital book - Fable

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As a boy in seventeenth-century Wales, Henry hears tales of a pirate's adventures and grows up to become Sir Henry Morgan, the notoriously vicious privateer who rules the Spanish Main and terrorizes the coasts of Cuba and America. His goal is to capture Panama—the "cup of gold"—and to possess the woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint. But one of those dreams will prove impossible . . .   This swashbuckling tale was the first novel written by John Steinbeck, the author renowned for such classics as and . Inspired by the life of a real historical figure, reveals an unseen side to this American literary giant.

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