The Road & The Scarlet Plague

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Prince Classics

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491_9789390295166

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The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is Londons account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, holding down a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of unprintable horrors, after being pinched (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kelleys Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River.This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.An early science-fiction story set in 2073, sixty years after a devastating plague wipes out most of the planets population. One of the few survivors recounts the story of life before and during the plague to his grand-children who have problems believing any of the tale.

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