![]() ![]() (A) Daphne du Maurier’s story Jamaica Inn has been overlooked by literary historians for its contribution to the history of Cornwall. Which of the following best expresses the main point of the passage above? This being said, wrecking was a real activity in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Jamaica Inn’s remote locale made it an excellent place to hide from the law. Du Maurier’s book is hardly an historic textbook anecdote suggests that du Maurier derived much of the source for her tale from the ghost stories she heard while staying briefly at Jamaica Inn. In du Maurier’s book, a young woman moves in with a family member at Jamaica Inn, only to discover that the inn is playing a sinister role in the crime of wrecking, that is, setting up lights along the coastline to draw ships in and wreck them on the rocky coast. Set on the wild and rugged Bodmin Moor of Cornwall, Jamaica Inn is most remembered for playing the starring role in a story by Cornish-born writer Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
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