The People of the Abyss - Jack London - Libros -  - 9798690666750 - 4 de enero de 2021
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The People of the Abyss

Book Excerpt: ...rail-clearers, living sign-posts to all the world, and bestowers of first aid to bewildered travellers--unhesitatingly and instantly, with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone's throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way!"You can't do it, you know," said the human emporium of routes and fares at Cook's Cheapside branch. "It is so--hem--so unusual.""Consult the police," he concluded authoritatively, when I had persisted. "We are not accustomed to taking travellers to the East End; we receive no call to take them there, and we know nothing whatsoever about the place at all.""Never mind that," I interposed, to save myself from being swept out of the office by his flood of negations. "Here's something you can do for me. I wish you to understand in advance what I intend doing, so that in case of trouble you may be able to identify me.""Ah, I see! should you be murdered, we would be in p...

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Publicado 4 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798690666750
Páginas 168
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   231 g
Lengua Inglés  

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