The Little Lady of the Big House
READING AGE 12+
The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London. The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, d**k Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his "acorn song" recalls London's play, "The Acorn Planters"). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman, who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband. Unable to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide. It was Jack Londons last novel to be published during his lifetime.
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Chapter XXXI
A ring of his bed ’phone made d**k sit on the bed to take up the receiver. As he listened, he looked out across the patio to Paula’s porches. Bonbright was explaining that it was a call from Chauncey Bishop who was at Eldorado in a machine. Chauncey Bishop, editor and owner of the San Francisco Dispatch , was su……
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