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Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. First published in 1915 "The Star Rover" also published as "The Jacket" is the tale of Darrell...
2) The Jack London Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: The Complete Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London
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Most people think of The Call of the Wild or White Fang when Jack London's name comes up—and rightfully so, for these are his two most famous works, and both are classics. It's an interesting but far less well known fact that London also wrote a substantial body of science fiction and fantasy (before the term "science fiction" had even been coined!) including The Scarlet Plague, The Iron Heel, and The Star Rover, and
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"The Little Lady of the Big House" (1915) is a novel by American writer Jack London. It was his last novel to be published during his lifetime. The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his "acorn song" recalls London's play, "The Acorn Planters"). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman, who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband. Unable...
4) Before Adam
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With dramatic and detailed first person narration, Jack London's Before Adam follows the dreams of a young boy who has a genetically imprinted memory and knowledge of an ancestor who lived in prehistoric times. Big Tooth is a pre-human ape and is the protagonist of the young boy's dreams. He lives in a tribe that rests in the middle of two extremes. In the surrounding area, there are tribes of differing levels of development. One is primitive and...
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The story follows the unnamed protagonist and his irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, a man with a "moon-face". The protagonist clearly states that his hatred of him is irrational, saying: "Why do we not like him? Ah, we do not know why; we know only that we do not. We have taken a dislike, that is all. And so I with John Claverhouse." The protagonist becomes obsessed with Claverhouse, hating his face, his laugh, his entire life. The protagonist...
6) The Jack London Collection: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague, and The Sea Wolf
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This Jack London Collection includes four of Jack London's most notable works: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague, and The Sea Wolf
The Call of the Wild
A bold-spirited dog named Buck is, stripped from his comfortable life on a California estate and, thrust into the rugged terrain of the Klondike. There, he is, made a sled dog and battles to become his team's leader and the devoted servant of John Thornton, a man who shows him kindness...
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Jack London's beloved 1903 masterpiece, The Call of the Wild, is unsurpassed as the gripping adventure of Buck, a California wolf-dog enjoying the good life, who is brutally kidnapped and sold into the Canadian Yukon as a sled-dog, during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck quickly has to shed his civilized ways to survive the harsh new laws of fang and club, but after terrifying challenges, he triumphs by discovering his true nature, which leads him...
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Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francisco ferry his is aboard collides with another ship in the fog. Adrift in the bay, Humphrey is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutish captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the "Ghost". However his relief in being saved is short-lived, for he is soon put to work, essentially enslaved as a cabin boy forced to do...
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A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel.
Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St. Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous, and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining...
11) The Whale Tooth
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In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London so often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In The Whale Tooth, a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathen" on Melanesia.
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Jack London 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 one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: The Whale Tooth, To Build A Fire, The House of Pride, The House of Mapuhi.
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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them, I shall use my time."--a quote from Jack London. London was a man of adventure, a man of action and...
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It was so cold that his spit froze in the air before it hit the ground. He was so far above the Artic Circle that the sun never rose. Seventy below zero, and there was nothing but whiteness in every direction: ice and snow. No trees, no houses, no wood, no warmth.
He had only a few matches and a handful of frozen fingers. And yet, to survive, he had to build a fire...
Jack London's tales of adventure were unsurpassed because London was there. From...
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Editorial Fonolibros
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El mundo a través de los ojos de un perro. La primera novela de Jack London, El llamado de la selva es una de esas obras únicas, en donde una serie de aventuras durante la fiebre del oro se ven a través de la visión de un perro, de fidelidad única, pero en el cual el llamado atávico de sus antepasados acaba triunfando. London estaba convencido de que la vuelta a la naturaleza, que en forma tan poderosa es en últimas el tema de la novela, es...
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"The Abysmal Brute" is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. In the story, a successful boxer, who was brought up in a log cabin and knows little of the real world, begins to realize the corrupt practices in the game of boxing.
18) Martin Eden
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Martin Eden ist die Geschichte eines ungebildeten, ungehobelten, jedoch weltklugen jungen Mannes, der sich heroisch um die Zuneigung eines Mädchens aus der gehobenen Schicht bemüht. Martin Eden glaubt, einzig durch das Erlangen von Bildung und Respekt würdig für die Liebe der jungen Ruth Morse zu sein. Er kann sich aber keine Schule und keinen Lehrer leisten und beschließt somit, sich selbst autodidaktisch zu unterrichten. Auf diesem Weg offenbaren...
19) Martin Eden
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"Martin Eden" es una novela marcadamente autobiográfica en la que London relata la lucha de un muchacho sin recursos y cultura por llegar a ser un escritor de éxito. Si bien es verdad que London está siempre presente en los personajes aventureros de sus obras, podríamos decir que en Martin Eden el autor se vacía y se entrega por entero a sus lectores. Se trata de una novela apasionada y trágica, en la mejor tradición de la novela americana,...
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