The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)
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ISBN10: 116393108X
ISBN13: 9781163931080
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781163931080
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play is a play written by the renowned American author Jack London and published in 1916. The play is set in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California and revolves around the conflict between two groups of people: the forest rangers, who seek to preserve the natural beauty of the forest, and the lumberjacks, who are determined to cut down the trees for profit.The main character of the play is a young man named Billy, who is a member of the lumberjack crew. Billy is torn between his loyalty to his fellow lumberjacks and his growing appreciation for the beauty and importance of the forest. As the conflict between the lumberjacks and the rangers escalates, Billy must decide where his loyalties lie and what he is willing to do to protect the forest.The Acorn-Planter is a powerful and thought-provoking play that explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, and the human relationship with nature. It is a timeless work that continues to resonate with readers today, and it remains an important contribution to the literary canon of American drama.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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