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The Road

Jack London

Book Overview: 

Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic strangers. In The Road, he relates the tales and memories of his days on the hobo road, including how the hobos would elude train crews and his travels with Kelly’s Army.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .They let the first blind, occupied by the shack, go by, and jumped on the second and third blinds. Of course, the shack jumped off the first and on to the second as it went by, and scrambled around there, throwing off the men who had boarded it. But the point is that I was so far ahead that when the first blind came opposite me, the shack had already left it and was tangled up with the tramps on the second blind. A half dozen of the more skilful tramps, who had run far enough ahead, made the first blind, too.

At the next stop, as we ran forward along the track, I counted but fifteen of us. Five had been ditched. The weeding-out process had begun nobly, and it continued station by station. Now we were fourteen, now twelve, now eleven, now nine, now eight. It reminded me of the ten little niggers of the nursery rhyme. I was resolved that I should be the last little nigger of all. And why not? Was I not blessed with strength, agility, and youth? (I was eighteen, and. . . Read More

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Posebnu slabost gajim prema ovim džepnim izdanjima „Svjetlosti“, pre svega zbog ovih predivnih petparačkih ilustracija na koricama, a onda i zbog demokratičnosti izbora romana - od jugo žanrovskih ostvarenja preko klasike (prvi prevod Velikog Getsbija se pojavio u ovoj ediciji i to pod imenom „Snaga

4.5 Stars for The Road (audiobook) by Jack London read by Barry Eads.

This was a interesting part of Jack London’s life that I wasn’t aware of. In this book he tells stories about when he was a young man in the late 1800’s, traveling around the country as a Hobo. There were many great adventures of

The 'Road' in question is the railroad - motor cars were almost unheard of when Jack London was travelling around America as a hobo. This is a fascinating look at a very different country. It's full of great characters and long-forgotten slang and exciting tussles with policemen and railroad employe

Big Rock Candy Mountain
~~ written by Harry McClintock

Chorus:
Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees
The soda water fountain where the lemonade springs
And the bluebird sings in that Big Rock Candy Mountain

On a summer day
In the month of May
A burly bum came ahiking
Down a shady lane
Through th

Έβδομο βιβλίο του Τζακ Λόντον που διαβάζω και δεύτερο που το βαθμολογώ με πέντε αστεράκια στο Gooreads, μετά το καταπληκτικό "Ο ταξιδιώτης τ'ουρανού" που διάβασα και απόλαυσα πέρυσι. Επίσης είναι το πρώτο αμιγώς αυτοβιογραφικό έργο του Λόντον που είχα την τύχη να πιάσω στα χέρια μου. Φυσικά κάποια δ

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