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Cover of The Benefit of the Doubt
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

CARTER WATSON, a current magazine under his arm, strolled slowly along, gazing about him curiously. Twenty years had elapsed since he had been on this particular street, and the changes were great and stupefying. This Western city of three hundred thousand souls had contained but thirty thousand,...
Cover of Brown Wolf
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and in and out among the orchard trees. "Where's...
Cover of Chris Farrington: Able Seaman
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

"If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots...
Cover of The Bones of Kahekili
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

And Ra was a sun-god in Egypt in the long ago," Pool interrupted with a sparkle of interest. "Truly, you Polynesians have travelled far in time and space since first you began. A far cry it is from Old Egypt, when Atlantis was still afloat, to Young Hawaii in the North Pacific. But proceed, Kumuhana. Do you remember anything also of what the priest Eoppo sang?"
Cover of At the Rainbow's End
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

It was for two reasons that Montana Kid discarded his "chaps" and Mexican spurs, and shook the dust of the Idaho ranges from his feet. In the first place, the encroachments of a steady, sober, and sternly moral civilization had destroyed the primeval status of the western cattle ranges,...
Cover of The King of Mazy May
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

The King of Mazy May by Jack London is a short story about a young man named Walt Masters who through wise perception, luck and persistence made it to Dawson wth Loren Hall to save Loren Hall's claim...  
Cover of The Chinago
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

   "The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs."                                   --Tahitian proverb....
Cover of The First Poet
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

SCENE: A summer plain, the eastern side of which is bounded by grassy hills of limestone, the other sides by a forest. The hill nearest to the plain terminates in a cliff, in the face of which, nearly at the level of the ground, are four caves, with low, narrow entrances. Before the caves, and...
Cover of Aloha Oe
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. The great transport lay with steam up, ready to pull out. A thousand persons were on her decks; five thousand stood on the wharf. Up and down the long gangway passed native princes and princesses, sugar kings and the high officials of the...
Cover of By the Turtles of the Tasman
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

Law, order, and restraint had carved Frederick Travers' face. It was the strong, firm face of one used to power and who had used power with wisdom and discretion. Clean living had made the healthy skin, and the lines graved in it were honest lines. Hard and devoted work had left its wholesome handiwork,...
Cover of Dutch Courage
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

"Just our luck!" Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and sullenly threw the towel upon the rocks. His attitude was one of deep dejection. The light seemed gone out of the day and the glory from the golden sun. Even the keen mountain air was devoid of relish, and the early morning no longer yielded its customary zest...
Cover of Four Horses and a Sailor
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015

"Huh! Drive four horses! I wouldn't sit behind you--not for a thousand dollars--over them mountain roads." So said Henry, and he ought to have known, for he drives four horses himself. Said another Glen Ellen friend: "What? London? He drive four horses? Can't drive one!"...
Cover of The Banks of the Sacramento
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

  "And it's blow, ye winds, heigh-ho,   For Cal-i-for-ni-o;   For there's plenty of gold so I've been told,   On the banks of the Sacramento!" It was only a little boy, singing in a shrill treble the sea chantey which seamen sing the wide world...
Cover of Confession
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015

There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her...
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