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JACK LONDON
THE VALLEY
OF THE MOON
Москва, 2018
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ББК 84(0)
Jack London
The Valley of the Moon / J. London. – М. : T8RUGRAM /
Original, 2018. – 630 с.
ISBN 978-5-521-07481-5
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist,
journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine
fi ction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the
fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune.
As a road novel set at the Turn-of-the-Century, “The Valley
of the Moon” follows the journey of a working-class couple
of Oakland Billy and Saxon Roberts through central and
northern California in search of beautiful land they can
farm. The book shows not only their struggles but also simple
human relationship and even fellowship the heroes form on
their way.
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© T8RUGRAM, оформление, 2018
ISBN 978-5-521-07481-5 © Original, 2018
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
CHAPTER XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
CHAPTER XIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
CHAPTER XIV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
BOOK II
CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
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CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245
CHAPTER XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
CHAPTER XIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
CHAPTER XIV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
CHAPTER XVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
CHAPTER XVII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
CHAPTER XVIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
CHAPTER XIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351
BOOK III
CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .416
CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429
CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441
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CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449
CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .477
CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .490
CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500
CHAPTER XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
CHAPTER XIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
CHAPTER XIV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .539
CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .550
CHAPTER XVI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .557
CHAPTER XVII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .566
CHAPTER XVIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
CHAPTER XIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .589
CHAPTER XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .597
CHAPTER XXI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607
CHAPTER XXII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .616
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
“You hear me, Saxon? Come on along. What if it is the
Bricklayers? I’ll have gentlemen friends there, and so’ll you.
The Al Vista band’ll be along, an’ you know it plays heavenly.
An’ you just love dancin’ –”
Twenty feet away, a stout, elderly woman interrupted the
girl’s persuasions. The elderly woman’s back was turned, and
the back – loose, bulging, and misshapen – began a convulsive heaving.
“Gawd!” she cried out. “O Gawd!”
She fl ung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal,
up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat
and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from
the damp cloth under the irons of the many ironers. From the
girls and women near her, all swinging irons steadily but at
high pace, came quick glances, and labor effi ciency suffered to
the extent of a score of suspended or inadequate movements.
The elderly woman’s cry had caused a tremor of money-loss to
pass among the piece-work ironers of fancy starch.
She gripped herself and her iron with a visible effort, and
dabbed futilely at the frail, frilled garment on the board under
her hand.
“I thought she’d got’em again – didn’t you?” the girl said.
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“It’s a shame, a woman of her age, and... condition,” Saxon
answered, as she frilled a lace ruffl e with a hot fl uting-iron.
Her movements were delicate, safe, and swift, and though her
face was wan with fatigue and exhausting heat, there was no
slackening in her pace.
“An’ her with seven, an’ two of ‘em in reform school,” the
girl at the next board sniffed sympathetic agreement. “But you
just got to come to Weasel Park to-morrow, Saxon. The Bricklayers’ is always lively – tugs-of-war, fat-man races, real Irish
jiggin’, an’... an’ everything. An’ the fl oor of the pavilion’s swell.”
But the elderly woman brought another interruption. She
dropped her iron on the shirtwaist, clutched at the board,
fumbled it, caved in at the knees and hips, and like a halfempty sack collapsed on the fl oor, her long shriek rising in the
pent room to the acrid smell of scorching cloth. The women at
the boards near to her scrambled, fi rst, to the hot iron to save
the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle. The women farther away continued
unsteadily at their work, losing movements to the extent of
a minute’s set-back to the totality of the effi ciency of the fancystarch room.
“Enough to kill a dog,” the girl muttered, thumping her
iron down on its rest with reckless determination. “Workin’
girls’ life ain’t what it’s cracked up. Me to quit – that’s what
I’m comin’ to.”
“Mary!” Saxon uttered the other’s name with a reproach so
profound that she was compelled to rest her own iron for emphasis and so lose a dozen movements.
Mary fl ashed a half-frightened look across.
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