The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack London
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, March 4, 2018)
Excerpt from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of HawaiiEned him just a little. They were in ways quite different from the women he liked best the elderly women, the spin sters and the bespectacled maidens, and the' very serious women of all ages whom he met on church and library and kinder garte'n committees, who came meekly to him for contributions and advice. He ruled those women by Virtue of his superior mentality, his great wealth, and the high place he occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii. And he was not afraid of them in the least. Sex, with them, was not obtrusive. Yes, that was it There was in them some thing else, or more, than the assertive grossness of life. He was fastidious; he acknowledged that to himself; and these army women, with their bare shoulders and naked arms, their straight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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