one-thousand-word

Updated: June 17, 2025

It was nothing less than robbery, he concluded a cold-blooded steal; while he starved, he was pilfered of his merchandise, of his goods, the sale of which was the sole way of getting bread to eat. Youth and Age was a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of his twenty- one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business. With it went all hopes of getting his sixteen dollars.

Jack London - Martin Eden