Adventure /
Though novelist Jack London is best known for the paean to natural wonder that is The Call of the Wild, he had an activist side, as well. In Adventure, London describes and skewers the plantation system of The Solomon Islands in a devastating take-down that is equal parts adventure tale and social j...
| Основен автор: | London, Jack, 1876-1916. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
[Auckland, N.Z.] :
Floating Press,
℗♭2010.
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Съдържание:
- Something to be done
- Something is done
- The Jessie
- Joan Lackland
- She would a planter be
- Tempest
- A hard-bitten gang
- Local colour
- As between a man and a woman
- A message from Boucher
- The Port Adams crowd
- Mr. Morgan and Mr. Raff
- The logic of youth
- The Martha
- A discourse on manners
- The girl who had not grown up
- "Your" Miss Lackland
- Making the books come true
- The lost toy
- A man-talk
- Contraband
- Gogoomy finishes along Kwaque altogether
- A message from the bush
- In the bush
- The head-hunters
- Burning daylight
- Modern duelling
- Capitulation.