AMATEUR NIGHT by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 28 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In "Amateur Night" by Jack London, young lady from the country moves to the big city to find a job with the biggest newspaper, and gets turned down, but, not giving up, she finds a writer who befriends her and devises a plan by which she can show she has what it takes to become a reporter. #JackLondon #1001Podcast #Podcast #Classics #ShortStories STORIES BY JACK LONDON. BEST OF JACK LONDON. JACK LONDON PODCAST.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to another great short story from 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:39.6 | This one titled Amateur Night is from Jack London, |
| 0:43.4 | and as you might expect, it's a story of toughness, |
| 0:46.1 | but not the kind of wilderness toughness you might expect. |
| 0:49.8 | The story revolves around two young sisters who leave their home in the country |
| 0:53.6 | to try and make it on their own in the big city, |
| 0:56.2 | with hopes of working for a big city newspaper and becoming writers. |
| 1:00.1 | The city newspaper editor turns them down, |
| 1:03.1 | so they call on the editor of a smaller newspaper, |
| 1:06.0 | who tells them that if they can survive amateur night at the local theater, |
| 1:09.8 | he'll give them both a shot at being reporters. |
| 1:13.6 | It's the classic tale of the lambs turn loose in the lion's den. |
| 1:19.6 | The elevator boy smiled knowingly to himself. |
| 1:23.4 | When he took her up, he had noted the sparkle in her eyes, the color in her cheeks. |
| 1:28.3 | His little cage had quite warm with the glow of her repressed eagerness. |
| 1:32.6 | And now, on the down-trip, it was glacier-like. |
| 1:36.5 | The sparkle and the color were gone. |
| 1:39.4 | She was frowning, and what little he could see of her eyes was cold and steel gray. |
| 1:45.2 | Oh, he knew the symptoms he did. |
| 1:47.6 | He was an observer, and he knew it too, |
| 1:50.0 | and someday when he was big enough, he was going to be a reporter, sure. |
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