Books with title On the Night You Were Born

At the beginning of the second decade of the Twentieth Century, a couple of worn-out gold prospectors are swapping drinks and stories at a tavern in San Francisco. They made decent fortunes in the Alaska and Yukon gold rush, but the effort sucked most of the life out of them.One by the name of Trefe than is 47, but, as he says, he looks ten years older. The weary fortune hunter remembers back to 1898, twelve years before, when he crossed the Canadian Rockies east of Alaska Territory, and much to his surprise, deep in the wild interior, he met a woman.She was certainly no ordinary woman. No ordinary woman could have survived for years out there, a thousand miles from civilization. She was hunting and trapping and living free and independent where hardly any white man had ever gone, and the local natives respected and obeyed her.Putting up at her camp for a few days, Trefe than learned all about her past, what brought her to the end of the known world, and what more she seeks from life. But is he up to the challenge.

THE NIGHT-BORNIt was in the old Alta-Inyo Club—a warm night for San Francisco—and through the open windows, hushed and far, came the brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of man-hate and man-meanness, until the name of O'Brien was mentioned—O'Brien, the promising young pugilist who had been killed in the prize-ring the night before. At once the air had seemed to freshen. O'Brien had been a clean-living young man with ideals. He neither drank, smoked, nor swore, and his had been the body of a beautiful young god. He had even carried his prayer-book to the ringside. They found it in his coat pocket in the dressing-room... afterward.Here was Youth, clean and wholesome, unsullied—the thing of glory and wonder for men to conjure with..... after it has been lost to them and they have turned middle-aged. And so well did we conjure, that Romance came and for an hour led us far from the man-city and its snarling roar. Bardwell, in a way, started it by quoting from Thoreau; but it was old Trefethan, bald-headed and dewlapped, who took up the quotation and for the hour to come was romance incarnate. At first we wondered how many Scotches he had consumed since dinner, but very soon all that was forgotten."It was in 1898—I was thirty-five then," he said. "Yes, I know you are adding it up. You're right. I'm forty-seven now; look ten years more; and the doctors say—damn the doctors anyway!"

"The Night-Born" by Jack London. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* At the beginning of the second decade of the Twentieth Century, a couple of worn-out gold prospectors are swapping drinks and stories at a tavern in San Francisco. They made decent fortunes in the Alaska and Yukon gold rush, but the effort sucked most of the life out of them. One by the name of Trefethan is 47, but, as he says, he looks ten years older. The weary fortune hunter remembers back to 1898, twelve years before, when he crossed the Canadian Rockies east of Alaska Territory, and much to his surprise, deep in the wild interior, he met a woman.She was certainly no ordinary woman. No ordinary woman could have survived for years out there, a thousand miles from civilization. She was hunting and trapping and living free and independent where hardly any white man had ever gone, and the local natives respected and obeyed her.Putting up at her camp for a few days, Trefethan learned all about her past, what brought her to the end of the known world, and what more she seeks from life. But is he up to the challenge?First published in Everybody's Magazine in 1911, The Night-Born became the title story of a book collection that came out in 1913. Contents: The Night-born -- The madness of John Harned -- When the world was young -- The benefit of the doubt -- Winged blackmail -- Bunches of knuckles -- War -- Under the deck awnings -- To kill a man -- The Mexican.

It was in the old Alta-Inyo Club-a warm night for San Francisco-and through the open windows, hushed and far, came the brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all the grotesque sordidness and rottenness of manhate and man-meanness, until the name of O'Brien was mentioned-O'Brien, the promising young pugilist who had been killed in the prize-ring the night before. At once the air had seemed to freshen. O'Brien had been a clean-living young man with ideals. He neither drank, smoked, nor swore, and his had been the body of a beautiful young god. He had even carried his prayer-book to the ringside. They found it in his coat pocket in the dressing-room. . . afterward.

The Night-Born is a collection of short stories by the famous American author Jack London. The collection includes the titular title as well as: THE MADNESS OF JOHN HARNED WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT WINGED BLACKMAIL BUNCHES OF KNUCKLES WAR UNDER THE DECK AWNINGS TO KILL A MAN THE MEXICAN Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. “The Night Born” is a collection of his best short stories, also included here are the following stories: “The Madness of John Harned”, “When the World Was Young”, “The Benefit of the Doubt”, “Winged Blackmail”, “Bunch of Knuckles”, “War”, “Under the Deck Awnings”, “To Kill a Man” and “The Mexican”. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)