Children of the Frost - Jack London - Books - Independently Published - 9798716816336 - March 31, 2021
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Children of the Frost

Book Excerpt: er against Fairfax. And he felt the warm blood in his face as he regarded the young savage. She was just a woman. That was all--a woman. The whole sordid story over again, over and over again, as old as Eve and young as the last new love-light."My man! My man! My man!" she was reiterating vehemently, her face passionately dark, and the ruthless tenderness of the Eternal Woman, the Mate-Woman, looking out at him from her eyes."Thom," he said gravely, in English, "you were born in the Northland forest, and you have eaten fish and meat, and fought with frost and famine, and lived simply all the days of your life. And there are many things, indeed not simple, which you do not know and cannot come to understand. You do not know what it is to long for the fleshpots afar, you cannot understand what it is to yearn for a fair woman's face. And the woman is fair, Thom, the woman is nobly fair. You have been woman to this man, and you have been your all, but your all is very little, very simple. Too littRead More

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 31, 2021
ISBN13 9798716816336
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 120
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 6 mm   ·   294 g
Language English  

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