Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


Emil Gluck was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1895. His father,
Josephus Gluck, was a special policeman and night watchman, who, in
the year 1900, died suddenly of pneumonia. The mother, a pretty,
fragile creature, who, before her marriage, had been a milliner,
grieved herself to death over the loss of her husband. This
sensitiveness of the mother was the heritage that in the boy became
morbid and horrible.


In 1901, the boy, Emil, then six years of age, went to live with
his aunt, Mrs. Ann Bartell. She was his mother's sister, but in
her breast was no kindly feeling for the sensitive, shrinking boy.
Ann Bartell was a vain, shallow, and heartless woman. Also, she
was cursed with poverty and burdened with a husband who was a lazy,
erratic ne'er-do-well. Young Emil Gluck was not wanted, and Ann
Bartell could be trusted to impress this fact sufficiently upon
him. As an illustration of the treatment he received in that
early, formative period, the following instance is given.

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