Lost Face - Jack London - Books -  - 9798688871869 - January 4, 2021
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Lost Face

Book Excerpt: ...d by their Cossack guards, another had dropped by the way. Always it had been savagery- -brutal, bestial savagery. They had died--of fever, in the mines, under the knout. The last two had died after the escape, in the battle with the Cossacks, and he alone had won to Kamtchatka with the stolen papers and the money of a traveller he had left lying in the snow. It had been nothing but savagery. All the years, with his heart in studios, and theatres, and courts, he had been hemmed in by savagery. He had purchased his life with blood. Everybody had killed. He had killed that traveller for his passports. He had proved that he was a man of parts by duelling with two Russian officers on a single day. He had had to prove himself in order to win to a place among the fur- thieves. He had had to win to that place. Behind him lay the thousand-years-long road across all Siberia and Russia. He could not escape that way. The only way was ahead, across the dark and icy sea of Bering to Alaska. The way had led...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 4, 2021
ISBN13 9798688871869
Pages 98
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   140 g
Language English  

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