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The Little Lady of the Big House

Jack London

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Wi'-hi yan'-ning koi-o-di'!
    Lo'-whi yan'-ning koi-o-di'!
    Yo-ho' Nai-ni', hal-u'-dom yo nai, yo-ho' nai-nim'!"

"The music is my own," he murmured apologetically, "the way I think it ought to have sounded. You see, no man lives who ever heard it sung. The Nishinam got it from the Maidu, who got it from the Konkau, who made it. But the Nishinam and the Maidu and the Konkau are gone. Their last rancheria is not. You plowed it under, Mr. Crockett, with you bonanza gang-plowing, plow-soling farming. And I got the song from a certain ethnological report, volume three, of the United States Pacific Coast Geographical and Geological Survey. Red Cloud, who was formed out of the sky, first sang this song to the stars and the mountain flowers in the morning of the world. I shall now sing it for you in English."

And again, in Indian falsetto, ringing with triumph, vernal and bursting, slapping his. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is a very different Jack London from "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild". He's a raconteur, an observer, a rennasance man and a lover. He loves owning things, and has the money to buy people or at least their knowledge. He is someone you'd love to have on your radar, maybe even your best friend

Ro: Micuța Doamnă a casei mari

O carte mai puțin cunoscută a lui Jack London cu de toate: o descriere frumoasă a anilor 1900, un triunghi amoros, o tragedie neasteptată.
Am călătorit in timp cu această carte și o recomand tuturor.

Ενδιαφέρουσα ιστορία μ΄ ένα απρόβλητο τέλος

Review to come when I get myself a life.

Love triangles stories are always interesting but I found these characters very difficult to identify with. The opening chapters were filled with such idealized scenes of characters being efficient and happy, I almost put the book down. The continual song-singing and jokey-camaraderie seemed overdon

I’ve always admired Jack London for the person that he became through sheer determination. He was a person that was born into a destiny comprised of long hours of manual labor but in spite of this position found time whenever possible, even at the cost of only four hours of sleep at night, to study

"მე მოხეტიალე კაცის დიდებულ ცხოვრებას ვეწევი..."

"ჭეშმარიტება ის არის, რაც ცხოვრებაში თავის თავს ამართლებს."

"მამაკაცი ზარმაცი და უხეშია, მას არ უყვარს, როდესაც თავს აბეზრებენ და მოთბინებიდან გამოჰყავთ. მას სიმშვიდე და დასვენება უყვარს. მას შემდეგ კი რაც ადამიანთა მოდგმა არსებობს, ერთთავად მოუსვენარ,

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