On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales - London, Jack
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Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine…mehr

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Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her gaze desired to wander in the direction of the half-dozen children playing on the lawn.
Autorenporträt
Jack Griffith London was a novelist, journalist, and social activist as well. By birth, he was an American as his birthplace was San Francisco, California. There is no clarity to the information on whether his folks Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney were hitched. In any case, after Chaney left Flora, she wedded John London who gave Jack his last name. Likewise, Verdure's subsequent marriages gave Jack two relatives, Eliza and Ida. The family moved a few times before settling in Oakland where Jack finished grade school. Despite residing in a rough climate, battling to endure consistently, London was an aggressive youngster, excited about his future all the time. He was exceptionally partial to perusing and composing. He found a library in Oakland, London dived himself into the world of writing. For a lengthy period, London had been caught up with composing while at the same time he continued with his work. His first story, Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan (1893) was written when he was on the sloop off the shores of Siberia and Japan. London soon started to treat writing seriously and embarked on his journey as a fruitful essayist. London joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1896. His communist perspectives are portrayed in his works like The Iron Heel (1908). London married Bess Maddern on April 7, 1900. The couple had two little girls Joan and Bess. After four years of their marriage, London and Bess separated. He remarried Charmian Kittredge. In 1900, London's first book, 'The Son of the Wolf' was distributed followed by his other works like 'The God of His Fathers' (1901), 'A Daughter of the Snows' (1902), 'The Children of the Frost' (1902), 'The Cruise of the Dazzler' (1902) and 'The People of the Abyss' (1903). Around this time, London met Anna Strunsky, who turned out to be his long-lasting companion and his composing accomplice for 'The Kempton-Wace Letters' (1903). Additional attempts that followed during London's productive composing vocation incorporate The Faith of Men (1904), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905) was trailed by War of the Classes (1905), Tales of the Fish-Patrol (1905), Moon Face and Other Stories (1906), Scorn of Women (1906), Before Adam (1907), Love of Life and Other Stories (1907), and The Road (1907).