The Jacket - Jack London - 图书 -  - 9798687816991 - 2020年12月24日
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The Jacket

Book Excerpt: ...n a surge of anger, obsessed by that catastrophic red wrath that has cursed me down the ages, I killed my fellow professor. The court records show that I did; and, for once, I agree with the court records. No; I am not to be hanged for his murder. I received a life- sentence for my punishment. I was thirty-six years of age at the time. I am now forty-four years old. I have spent the eight intervening years in the California State Prison of San Quentin. Five of these years I spent in the dark. Solitary confinement, they call it. Men who endure it, call it living death. But through these five years of death-in-life I managed to attain freedom such as few men have ever known. Closest-confined of prisoners, not only did I range the world, but I ranged time. They who immured me for petty years gave to me, all unwittingly, the largess of centuries. Truly, thanks to Ed Morrell, I have had five years of star-roving. But Ed Morrell is another story. I shall tell you about him a little later. I have so much to t...

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2020年12月24日
ISBN13 9798687816991
页数 256
商品尺寸 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   344 g
语言 英语  

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