Burning Daylight is a 1910 novel by Jack London, notable as his best-selling book over his lifetime.
It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy. They argued with an air of depression and with intervals of morose silence. The other men scarcely heeded them. In a row, against the opposite wall, were the gambling games. The crap-table was deserted. One lone man was playing at the faro-table. The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin. Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers. On the floor of the dancing-room, which opened out at the rear, three couples were waltzing drearily to the strains of a violin and a piano.
Jack London, Burning Daylight
Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1910/00/00 | Jack London | Author | Burning Daylight - published | ||||
1910/00/00 | Macmillan Publishers | Publisher | Burning Daylight - published |
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Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
Element | Gold | ||
Industry | Goldmine | excavation site for gold, a precious metal | |
Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language |
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Original Language: | English |
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