WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL by JACK LONDON BEST OF 1001
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A classic Jack London short story in which a Hawaiian women is persuaded by a fiery preacher to bare her soul of all she knows about the town and its personal histories.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome everyone to |
| 0:24.4 | to one thousand one's best of jack London. This is your host and |
| 0:27.4 | storyteller John Haggadorn and it's great to have you with us today. |
| 0:31.0 | The Fire and Brimstone sermon in Honolulu was only half over. |
| 0:34.5 | When Alice A-Kana decided to tell everyone present what had been weighing down her |
| 0:40.1 | soul all these years and Alice knew everybody and everything. By the time she was done, |
| 0:47.4 | there were no more secrets in Hawaii. Not too many years ago, there was a great pop song out there called the Harper Valley PTA, sung by |
| 0:56.1 | Genie C Riley, which told a story that involved a PTA mother who was criticized by the school |
| 1:01.9 | leaders for wearing her dress a little too short |
| 1:04.6 | which then prompted her to liven up the next PTA meeting by reciting the scandal sheet |
| 1:09.9 | on some of the key people who were running the show. |
| 1:13.0 | In this great story from Jack London, |
| 1:16.0 | it's not revenge that motivates Alice O'Connor to speak up. |
| 1:19.0 | It's a sermon that causes a sudden rush for penitence, |
| 1:22.0 | but when she opens up on every secret in town, |
| 1:25.2 | all hell breaks loose in Hawaii, when Alice told her soul by Jack London. |
| 1:41.0 | This of Alice O'Connor is an affair of Hawaii, not of this day, but of days recent enough, when Abel I.O. preached his famous revival in Honolulu and |
| 1:45.3 | persuaded Alice O'Connor to tell her soul. But what Alice told concerned itself |
| 1:51.4 | with the earlier history of the then surviving generation. |
| 1:55.6 | For Alice O'Connor was 50 years old, had begun life early, and early and late, lived it spaciously. |
| 2:04.0 | What she knew went back into the roots and foundations of families, |
| 2:07.8 | businesses, and plantations. |
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