Short Stories of Jack London: Authorized One-volume Edition"Story of a Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan", "The White Silence", "To The Man On Trail", "In a Far Country", "An Odyssey of the North", "Semper Idem", "The Law of Life", "A Relic of the Pliocene", "Nam-Bok the Unveracious", "The One Thousand Dozen", "To Build a Fire", "Moon-Face", "Batard", "The Story of Jees Uck", "The League of the Old Men", "Love of Life", "The Sun-Dog Trail", "All Gold Canyon", "A Day's Lodging", "The Apostate", "The Wit of Porportuk", "The Unparalleled Invasion", "To Build a Fire (1908)", "The House of Pride", "The House of Mapuhi", "The Chinago", "Lost Face", "Koolau the Leper", "Chun ah Chun", "The Heathern", "Mauki", "The Strength of the Strong", "South of the Slot", "Samuel", "A Piece of Steak", "The Madness of Jahn Harned", "The Night-Born", "War", "Told in the Drooling Ward", "Wonder of Woman", "The Red One", "On the Makaloa Mat", "The Tears of Ah Kim", "Shin Bones", "When Alice Told Her Soul", "Like Argus of the Ancient Times", "The Princess", "The Water Baby." |
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... head was very like any other head , but in that head was evolved an idea . Also , in that head was the wisdom to keep that idea secret . He did not write an article for the magazines . Instead , he asked for a vacation . On September 19 ...
... head was very like any other head , but in that head was evolved an idea . Also , in that head was the wisdom to keep that idea secret . He did not write an article for the magazines . Instead , he asked for a vacation . On September 19 ...
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... head off , that is all . And it is the same with a man . Pouf ! -it is over . It doesn't hurt . You don't even think it hurts . You don't think . Your head is gone , so you cannot think . It is very good . That is the way I want to die ...
... head off , that is all . And it is the same with a man . Pouf ! -it is over . It doesn't hurt . You don't even think it hurts . You don't think . Your head is gone , so you cannot think . It is very good . That is the way I want to die ...
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... head - hunters . Heads are valuable , especially a white- man's head . They decorate the canoe - houses and devil - devil houses with them . Each village runs a jack - pot , and everybody antes . Whoever brings in a whiteman's head ...
... head - hunters . Heads are valuable , especially a white- man's head . They decorate the canoe - houses and devil - devil houses with them . Each village runs a jack - pot , and everybody antes . Whoever brings in a whiteman's head ...
Contents
THE WHITE SILENCE | 8 |
IN A FAR COUNTRY | 25 |
AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Short Stories of Jack London: Authorized One-volume Edition Jack London,Earle Labor,Robert C. Leitz,Irving Milo Shepard No preview available - 1992 |
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