作者：Jack London
分类：外国现当代, 文学经典
字数：102264字
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出版社：豆瓣阅读/2019-01
提供方：公版书
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图书简介：From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in a temperature perhaps half a degree colder than mine. And there was no tug. Possum, the fox-terrier puppy Galbraith had so inconsi-derately foisted upon me, whimpered and shivered on my lap inside my greatcoat and under the fur robe. But he would not settle down. Continually he whimpered and clawed and struggled to get out. And, once out and bitten by the cold, with equal insistence he whimpered and clawed to get back. His unceasing plaint and movement was anything but sedative to my jangled nerves. In the first place I was uninterested in the brute. He meant nothing to me. I did not know him. Time and again, as I drearily waited, I was on the verge of giving him to the driver. Once, when two little girls-evidently the wharfinger's daughters-went by, my hand reached out to the door to open it so that I might call to them and present them with the puling little wretch.This is a public domain book converted by anonymous volunteers and you may find it for free on the web.This work is respectfully inscribed by the author.杰克·伦敦，原名为约翰·格利菲斯·伦敦（John Griffith London），美国著名的现实主义作家，生于旧金山。20世纪初西方辱华作家的急先锋。他在一个既无固定职业又无固定居所的家庭中长大。24岁开始写作，去世时年仅40岁。从1900年起，他连续发表和出版了许多小说，讲述美国下层人民的生活故事，揭露资本主义社会的罪恶。他的作品大都带有浓厚的社会主义和个人主义色彩。他的作品在全世界都广为流传，是最受中国读者欢迎的外国作家之一。他一生著述颇丰，16年中留下了19部长篇小说、150多篇短篇小说以及大量文学报告集，还写了3个剧本以及相当多的随笔和论文。最著名的有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《白牙》、《热爱生命》等小说。1904年发表《黄祸》一文，1908年和1910年分别写了两部小说《中国佬》和《空前绝后的入侵》，以及其他涉及中国海外移民题材的多篇作品，不吝惜笔墨，污蔑中国人为“劣等民族”，是对欧美白人世界构成威胁的“黄祸”，必须对之实施“种族灭绝”。扬言“白人是一个伟大的种族，地球的一半和海洋的全部都是他们的世袭财产”。在小说《空前绝后的入侵》中写到，中国扩张，即将侵略西方的白人文明世界，于是美国向中国发动细菌战，造成中国大地上瘟疫流行，成千上万人中国人被毒死。最后，列强灭掉中国，瓜分了中国领土。他是世界文学史上最早的商业作家之一，因此被誉为商业作家的先锋。