by John Steinbeck · Ediciones Folio, S. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441321670
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«La taza de oro» is the historical novel by John Steinbeck, published by Ediciones Folio in paperback (194 pages, in Spanish).
It narrates the life of Sir Henry Morgan, a 17th-century Welsh buccaneer, from his humble origins to being elected admiral of the Caribbean buccaneers. His two great ambitions are to possess La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the legendary «taza de oro». It was John Steinbeck's first novel and his only work of historical fiction.
It is no. 11 in the collection «La historia de España novela a novela». Original title: «Cup of Gold» (1929). Subtitle: «Vida de sir Henry Morgan, bucanero, con ocasionales referencias a la historia».
For readers of historical and adventure fiction; it also reveals the lesser-known side of John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
