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"Vremia-ne-zhdet" prozvali likhogo elama Kharnisha na zolotykh priiskakh Aliaski. I on deistvitelno privyk zhit tak, budto zavtrashnego dnia ne sushchestvuet, s zhadnostiu vyryvat u sudby vse, chto tolko mozhno, naslazhdatsia dazhe opasnostiu, slovno uvlekatelnoi igroi. "Vse ili nichego", – takov byl ego deviz v mire Belogo bezmolviia, takim on i ostalsia v San-Frantcisko. Odnako udastsia li emu, privychnomu k tovarishchestvu, chestnosti i grubovatoi iskrennosti zolotoiskatelei, vyzhit v finansovykh dzhungliakh, gde tcariat lozh, litcemerie i kholodnyi raschet? Vyzhit – i ne poteriat sebia?..
416 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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Jack London
7,638 books7,686 followersJohn Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during 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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during 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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".
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Первая половина книги - пропасть, вторая - поломанный мост над этой пропастью. Даже для общего развития скорее нет, чем да.
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