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Theft

by Jack London

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First published: 1910
Pages: 199

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London published about half a dozen plays during his career, and this one, from 1910, sets a reformer against a fortune. The action runs some twenty hours in Washington, D.C., where Howard Knox, a congressman from Oregon, prepares a speech exposing the industrial magnate Anthony Starkweather. Senator Chalmers and the journalist Ellery Jackson Hubbard scheme to discredit him before he can deliver it. The incriminating letters in Knox's hands are themselves stolen goods, lifted from Starkweather's private files, and they change hands more than once before the last act. Caught in the middle is Margaret Chalmers, the senator's wife and Starkweather's daughter. The title carries the argument: Knox calls accumulated wealth theft, and naming it plainly is what makes him dangerous. The play went unstaged in London's lifetime.

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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.