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When God Laughs

by Jack London

Pages: 131

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When God Laughs
24:52
The Apostate
43:29
A Wicked Woman
19:11
Just Meat
37:10
Created He Them
21:53
The Chinago
33:39
Make Westing
18:52
Semper Idem
10:28
A Nose for the King
12:00
The 'Francis Spaight'
20:44
A Curious Fragment
20:51
A Piece of Steak
43:38

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Published in 1911, this collection gathers a dozen stories that show Jack London reaching well beyond the frozen North. The tales move across boxing rings, prison cells, tramp camps, and drawing rooms, bound together by London's fascination with irony, appetite, and the cruel jokes fate plays on people who want too much. The title piece sets the mood, a bitter meditation on love and pleasure told over wine, arguing that the gods laugh hardest at those who grasp for happiness. Alongside it sits one of his best-known fight stories, 'A Piece of Steak,' about an aging boxer staking everything on one last hungry bout. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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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.

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