Jack London

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912.

'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was

Un hymne sublime la jeunesse, l'audace, et la libert . dix-huit ans, jack London quitte son emploi et part d couvrir le monde. Devenu hobo, c'est- -dire un passager clandestin bord des trains, il parcourt des milliers de kilom tres travers l'Am rique du Nord. Prenant tous les risques, il croise sur son chemin les "gosses de la route, ces vagabonds du rail qui bravent le froid, la faim et la loi, mais go tent l'ivresse de l'aventure." Cette exp rience extraordinaire marquera sa vie. En dition bilingue anglais/fran ais, avec lecture audio int gr e: Non seulement vous pouvez lireLes Vagabonds du Rail (The Road) en fran ais et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi couter la lecture de cet ouvrage dans sa version originale anglophone, gr ce votre t l phone ou tablette. L'id al pour am liorer votre ma trise de la langue anglaise

Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to tortuously compress the whole body. To survive, Standing discovers how to enter a trance state in which he walks among the stars and experiences past lives.