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Jack London
- Engels
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- 9781545068656
- april 2017
- 120 pagina's
Jack London
"Jack London, pseudoniem van John Griffith Chaney (San Francisco, Californië, 12 januari 1876 - Glen Ellen, Californië, 22 november 1916), was een Amerikaans schrijver van romans en korte verhalen.
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It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a ''hungry'' town. They ''battered'' the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive. A hard town for ''scoffings,'' was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could ''throw my feet'' with the next one when it came to ''slamming a gate for a ''poke-out'' or a ''set-down,'' ''or hitting for a light piece'' on the street. Why, I was so hard put in that town, one day, that I gave the porter the slip and invaded the private car of some itinerant millionnaire. The train started as I made the platform, and I headed for the aforesaid millionnaire with the porter one jump behind and reaching for me. It was a dead heat, for I reached the millionnaire at the same instant that the porter reached me. I had no time for formalities. ''Gimme a quarter to eat on,'' I blurted out. And as I live, that millionnaire dipped into his pocket and gave me … just … precisely … a quarter. It is my conviction that he was so flabbergasted that he obeyed automatically, and it has been a matter of keen regret ever since, on my part, that I didn't ask him for a dollar.
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