SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

Twelve stories and hardly a comfortable one among them a boy who has worked in a mill since childhood and simply walks away from it a Chinese coolie in Tahiti guillotined for another mans crime because the names sound alike two burglars who poison each other over the takings a ships crew driven to cannibalism a captain fighting to get round the Horn and in A Piece of Steak an ageing boxer who loses his fight for want of one good meal London colle...Seguir leyendo