Cup of Gold

By John Steinbeck

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

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."