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The Apostate
2013
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
36
Number of Pages
The apostate is about a boy named Johnny who has been working since he was 7 earning money for his family. It explains how he had been the provider for the household for then and how his childhood was almost nonexistent. The story starts with him being 12 at that time having already lost his innocent and had the irritability of an old man. In all of his job he was terribly efficient being described as a machine many times. Even when one of his siblings became old enough to work his mother made sure he stayed in school laying all the responsibility to Johnny. As this continued one day when he was 16 he had to stay home sick for a couple days after which he decided he was done moving and just wanted to do nothing for the rest of his life after which he boarded a train and left his family.
Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
162
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author

Jack London
Jack London
Author · 166 books

John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories, "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd," in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, and socialism. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. London died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. London's ashes were buried on his property, not far from the Wolf House. The grave is marked by a mossy boulder. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.

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