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The House of Pride

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John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe London's father was astrologer William Chaney. Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. London was born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco. The house burned down in the fire after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the California Historical Society placed a plaque at the site in 1953. The House of Pride was first published in 1910. Percival Ford is a very straight-laced multimillionaire on Hawaii, son of a Puritan missionary who had made a fortune buying up native lands on the cheap. He is approaching middle age now and is as prurient - and convinced of his inner moral superiority - as ever, and particularly ill at ease with the loose Hawaiian morals he sees flourishing all around him. When he discovers that one of the objects of is moral opprobrium and intolerance is, in fact, an illegitimate son of his idealized father, his stern moral outlook begins to crumble. But people of his ilk do not change their world outlook on the spur of the moment … Enjoy free online English audiobook “The House of Pride”, breathtaking shorts story by Jack London.