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The Road
English BooksWhale Edition by Jack London
Jack London’s firsthand tramp memoir turns rail yards, jails, and roadside survival into sharp social testimony.
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The Road
The Road records Jack London’s years as a tramp, mixing autobiography, social observation, humor, hardship, and restless movement across America. This English edition presents an important nonfiction companion to London’s fiction, valuable for readers interested in labor, mobility, poverty, and the rough underside of modern life.
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Jack London died in 1916, and The Road was first published in 1907. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original English text.
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Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02CONFESSION
- 03HOLDING HER DOWN
- 04PICTURES
- 05"PINCHED"
- 06THE PEN
- 07HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
- 08ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS
- 09TWO THOUSAND STIFFS
- 10BULLS
- 11CONFESSION
- 12HOLDING HER DOWN
- 13PICTURES
- 14"PINCHED"
- 15THE PEN
- 16HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
- 17ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS
- 18TWO THOUSAND STIFFS
- 19BULLS
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