A steak

Author: Jack London (USA)
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: The twenty short stories selected in this book cover almost all the themes Jack London explored in his life. In this collection, boxer Tom King has passed his peak in his boxing career and is now impoverished and struggling. Later, he finally fell. At that time, due to his poverty, he couldn’t even afford a piece of steak. He thought, if he had a steak to eat, he would surely defeat his opponent. In reality, what he lacked wasn’t the strength of a piece of steak but the lost years: the tides turn, the new replaces the old, and no one can always be the strong one in life—everyone has a bottleneck in their life, the coldest winter of their existence. It awaits you on the road ahead, and you cannot escape it. Tom King is more than just fighting hunger and death; he is fighting fear. Literary master Jack London brilliantly portrays this struggle. Through the words, we see the immense potential energy of life itself, an energy that cannot be diminished—it will help you survive. No matter what you face, whether it is the wilderness that consumes you, the beast that devours you, or hunger and exhaustion, life will help you overcome it.