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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![The Scarlet Plague](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnncr145nf1s43cd0jf6rgp/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260917%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260917T142627Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=d53cb922d07c33773ca9ccd1edc9fe2a8db70bde1ba2fe4cc1c54c3e11cb5e46) ## About this work The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, Gordon 1875-1962 \[Illustrator\] Grant — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside Illustrations Slowly he Pulled the Bowstring Taut 020 Rabbit is Good, Very Good 026 This Attracted the Old Man’s Nostrils 033 With a Sling Such As David Carried 036 I Was a Professor of English Literature 054 Sixty Years Since I Have Seen a Piece of Soap. 059 Granser, You Make Me Sick With Your Gabble 071 But This New Plague Was Quicker 078 The Telephone Bell Rang 088 Fled from the City by Millions 092 I Heard Sounds of Rioting and Of Pistol Shots 098 Look at Yourself in the Mirror 100 Now in the Time of Calamity They Turned on Us 108 He Told Me he Had Been Cruelly Beaten 112 We Thrust Her Forth from the Building 121 She Fell Like a Plummet to the Earth 132 With My Horse and Dogs And Pony, I Set out 144 Everybody Called Him Chauffeur 149 Vesta the One Woman 150 There She Was, Boiling Fish-chowder 153 And Her the Chauffeur Beat and Made his Slave 158 Found Evidences of a Recently Occupied Camp 169 I Have Stored Many Books in a Cave 179 THE SCARLET PLAGUE I The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man’s body, and was no more than a wild-animal runway. Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through the forest-mould, advertised that the rail and the ties still remained. In one place, a ten-inch tree, bursting through at a connection, had lifted the end of a rail clearly into view. The tie had evidently followed the rail,… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fthe-scarlet-plague) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fthe-scarlet-plague) No reviews yet. 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