The Scarlet Plague E-Book

Jack London

• Herausgeber: Kitabu
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

2073, sixty years after the "Red Death", an unstoppable plague, has eliminated the most part of the human population and casting the few survivors back into the Stone Age, James Howard Smith, an old man among the few survivors, recounts to the wild grandchildren of survivors how things went, trying to teach them a lesson of wisdom and knowledge.

Leseprobe

THE SCARLET PLAGUE

ISBN 978-88-674-4305-53

Series: RADICI

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CHAPTER I.

THE way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more than a wild-animal runway. Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through the forest-mould, advertised that the rail and the ties still remained. In one place, a ten-inch tree, bursting through at a connection, had lifted the end of a rail clearly into view. The tie had evidently followed the rail, held to it by the spike long enough for its bed to be filled with gravel and rotten leaves, so that now the crumbling, rotten timber thrust itself up at a curious slant. Old as the road was, it was manifest that it had been of the mono-rail type.