by John Steinbeck · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435017350
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«La taza de oro» is the historical novel by John Steinbeck, published by Edhasa in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
In the seventeenth century, Henry Morgan, elected admiral by the buccaneers, leads raids against Spanish strongholds before undertaking the conquest of Panama, the city known as the Cup of Gold. Steinbeck reconstructs his rise and his final plunder, and portrays ambition and the frontier between piracy and the war between Spain and England.
Work originally published in 1929; this edition is number 235 of the Pocket collection. The translation is by Angela Pérez.
For readers of historical and adventure novels, and for those interested in the early works of John Steinbeck.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
