Word: merioneth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Richard Hughes, 76, Welsh author best known for his 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica, a shocking fable about the evil that innocent children can do; of leukemia; in Merioneth, Wales. In the 33 years after A High Wind, a perennial bestseller, Hughes wrote only one novel before he began The Human Predicament, an ambitious trilogy of historical novels set between the World Wars. In The Fox in the Attic (1962), the first volume, England, Germany and the rise of Hitler are seen through the eyes of a young aristocratic liberal, who continues to observe and philosophize about...
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