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    The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
    The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
    The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
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    The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)

    By Jack London

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    "The Acorn-Planter" is a deep symbolic play by the prominent American writer Jack London. London rarely wrote plays, so this book gives a chance to learn the lesser-known sides of the great artist's talent. The play tells about members of the Nishinam Indian tribe of California who meet the Sun Men, a group of white explorers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 27, 2019
    ISBN4057664612922
    The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
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    Jack London

    Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.

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      Book preview

      The Acorn-Planter - Jack London

      Jack London

      The Acorn-Planter

      A California Forest Play (1916)

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664612922

      Table of Contents

      ARGUMENT

      PROLOGUE

      ACT I.

      ACT II

      EPILOGUE

      ARGUMENT

      Table of Contents

      In the morning of the world, while his tribe

      makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red

      Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man

      of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty

      of life, which duty is to make life more abundant.

      The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of

      foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who

      commands in war, sings that war is the only

      way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming

      that the way of life is the way of the acorn-

      planter, and that whoso slays one man slays

      the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins

      the Shaman and the people to his contention.

      After the passage of thousands of years, again

      in the grove appear the Nishinam. In Red

      Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the

      Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures

      of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, and

      the woman—types ever realizing themselves

      afresh in the social adventures of man. Red

      Cloud recognizes the wrecked explorers as

      planters and life-makers, and is for treating

      them with kindness. But the War Chief and

      the idea of war are dominant The Shaman

      joins with the war party, and is privy to the

      massacre of the explorers.

      A hundred years pass, when, on their seasonal

      migration, the Nishinam camp for the night in

      the grove. They still live, and the war formula

      for life seems vindicated, despite the imminence

      of the superior life-makers, the whites, who are

      flooding into California from north, south, east,

      and west—the English, the Americans, the

      Spaniards, and the Russians. The massacre by

      the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying,

      recognizes the white men as brother acorn-planters,

      the possessors of the superior life-formula

      of which he had always been a protagonist.

      In the Epilogue, or Apotheosis, occur the

      celebration of the death of war and the triumph

      of the acorn-planters.

      PROLOGUE

      Table of Contents

      Time. In the morning of the world.

      Scene. A forest hillside where great trees stand with wide

      spaces between. A stream flows from a spring that bursts

      out of the hillside. It is a place of lush ferns and brakes,

      also, of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest

      floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the

      hillside, extending out of sight among the trees, is visible a

      portion of a Nishinam Indian camp. It is a temporary

      camp for the night. Small cooking fires smoulder. Standing

      about are withe-woven baskets for the

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