The Cruise of the Dazzler E-Book

Jack London

• Herausgeber: Jack London
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction.Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes (font: Wikipedia)

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The Cruise of the Dazzler

Jack London

CONTENTS

I BROTHER AND SISTER

II "THE DRACONIAN REFORMS"

III "BRICK," "SORREL-TOP," AND "REDDY"

IV THE BITER BITTEN

V HOME AGAIN

VI EXAMINATION DAY

VII FATHER AND SON

VIII 'FRISCO KID AND THE NEW BOY

IX ABOARD THE DAZZLER

X WITH THE BAY PIRATES

XI CAPTAIN AND CREW

XII JOE TRIES TO TAKE FRENCH LEAVE

XIII BEFRIENDING EACH OTHER

XIV AMONG THE OYSTER-BEDS

XV GOOD SAILORS IN A WILD ANCHORAGE

XVI 'FRISCO KID'S DITTY-BOX

XVII 'FRISCO KID TELLS HIS STORY

XVIII A NEW RESPONSIBILITY FOR JOE

XIX THE BOYS PLAN AN ESCAPE

XX PERILOUS HOURS

XXI JOE AND HIS FATHER

CHAPTER I

PART I

CHAPTER I

BROTHER AND SISTER

They ran across the shining sand, the Pacific thundering its long surge at their backs, and when they gained the roadway leaped upon bicycles and dived at faster pace into the green avenues of the park. There were three of them, three boys, in as many bright-colored sweaters, and they "scorched" along the cycle-path as dangerously near the speed-limit as is the custom of boys in bright-colored sweaters to go. They may have exceeded the speed-limit. A mounted park policeman thought so, but was not sure, and contented himself with cautioning them as they flashed by. They acknowledged the warning promptly, and on the next turn of the path as promptly forgot it, which is also a custom of boys in bright-colored sweaters.

Shooting out through the entrance to Golden Gate Park, they turned into San Francisco, and took the long sweep of the descending hills at a rate that caused pedestrians to turn and watch them anxiously. Through the city streets the bright sweaters flew, turning and twisting to escape climbing the steeper hills, and, when the steep hills were unavoidable, doing stunts to see which would first gain the top.