Jack 1877
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Description
Alphonse Daudet's Jack, translated by Mary Neal Sherwood and published in 1877, follows a boy whose godfather was an English major-general. Lord Pembroke was killed in a tiger chase at Singapore. Jack's story moves from Vaugirard and a school on the Avenue Montaigne through a troubled youth in Paris.
Figures around him include Ida and the poet d'Argenton, whose ham, wine, and mustard are sacred. Cécile's unhappy resolve shadows the later chapters. Jack works in an engine room at Indret and ends in a hospital, in a novel that made Daudet famous for tender, unsparing pictures of young lives gone wrong.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 536 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |