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Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can...
Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views....
Under this title the author has grouped eight short stories. The tale which gives the book its name is a description of a man dying in the wilds of the Northwest by slow starvation. The concluding story,...
Revolution The somnambulists The dignity of dollars Goliah The golden poppy The shrinkage of the planet The house beautiful The gold hunters of the North Fomá Gordyéeff These bones shall rise again The...
Jack London was a writer, but more than that, he was an adventurer who wrote about his adventures. Growing up working class in San Francisco, London diligently scrounged out a life riding trains, pirating...
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for...
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was...
Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot...
Jack London, the novelist, the writer of short stories, merits respect, for he is a powerful artist in the field where he found fame. He is best known by his stories of life in the frozen and savage North....
The class struggle -- The tramp -- The scab -- The question of the maximum -- A review -- Wanted: a new law of development -- How I became a socialist
Written in 1906, "Before Adam" is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. It revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence...
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular...
From "The League of the Old Men" At the Barracks a man was being tried for his life. He was an old man, a native from the Whitefish River, which empties into the Yukon below Lake Le Barge. All Dawson...
Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted...
Dystopian Plague Classic! The year is 2072, and the earth has been depopulated by a plague epidemic that struck in 2013. The victims of the scarlet plague are dead within an hour or less of the first...
David Grief was once a light-haired, blue-eyed youth who came from Englandto the South Seas in search of adventure. Tanned like a native and aslithe as a tiger, he became a real son of the sun. The life...
JERRY is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of...
These letters embody the suppositious correspondence of a poet and a scientist. The letters of both are in a somewhat high-flown and impossible manner. Although the subjects treated, love and marriage,...
Été 1902, Jack London s’immerge pendant sept semaines dans les bas-fonds de Londres. De cette immersion en ressort un témoignage qu’il publie en 1903. Il montre avec une implacable lucidité une société...
Jack London's Adventure Collection is a compilation of his most famous and influential works, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. London's writing style is marked by vivid descriptions...
The Sea-Wolf is the gripping tale of Humphrey Van Weyden who is ship-wrecked after embarking on what was meant to be a pleasure cruise. When he is picked up by a passing ship, he initially believes he...
White Fang is a beautiful wolf-dog hybrid, born in and raised in the harsh and dangerous wilderness of the Canadian Yukon. One day, however, White Fang is discovered by a local Native American man who...
Forse il romanzo più famoso dello scrittore statunitense, è uno dei grandi classici della letteratura per ragazzi. Pubblicato inizialmente a puntate sulla rivista 'Saturday Evening Post' nell'estate del...
L’auteur de Croc-Blanc et de L’Appel de la forêt, parmi dix-neuf romans et cent cinquante nouvelles, fut aussi, on le sait moins, un pionnier du journalisme de sport. Cet ouvrage, présenté par Benoît...
Jack London's 'White Fang' and 'The Call of the Wild' are two timeless classics that delve into the complexities of the human-animal relationship in the wild. Both novels exhibit London's signature naturalistic...
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