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This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate,""Just Meat,""A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago."

Written during a time of tragedy, this novel of sea life fails in either its story or doctrinaire intentions.

A tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism.

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness."

This story of brutality toward animals inspired a movement known as the Jack London Clubs, which were devoted to the cause of animal welfare and humane treatment.

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian

Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories first published in 1902.Includes:- The League of the Old Men- In the Forests of the North- The Law of Life- Nam-Bok the Unveracious- The Master of Mystery- The Sunlanders- The Sickness of Lone Chief- Keesh, the Son of Keesh- The Death of Ligoun- Li Wan, the Fair

Contents:The Son of the WolfThe God of his Fathers & Other StoriesA Daughter of the SnowsThe Call of the WildThe Sea WolfThe Faith of Men & Other StoriesThe GameTales of the Fish PatrolMoon-Face & Other StoriesWhite FangBefore AdamLove of Life & Other StoriesThe RoadThe Iron HeelMartin EdenBurning DaylightLost FaceAdventureThe Abysmal BruteSouth Sea TalesWhen God Laughs & Other StoriesThe Scarlet PlagueThe House of PrideA Son of the SunThe Valley of the MoonThe Night-BornThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreThe Strength of the StrongThe Star RoverThe Little Lady of the Big HouseThe Turtles of TasmanJerry of the IslandsMichael, Brother of JerryHearts of ThreeThe Red OneOn the Makaloa MatChildren of the FrostDutch Courage and Other Stories

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieves apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joes, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of Londons boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.

Londons first novel introduces the strong, independent, well-educated heroine that would run through much of his work.

El vagabundo de las estrellas es la última novela que escribió Jack London. Es una feroz crítica de la tortura y de la pena de muerte, y una metáfora del placer emancipador de la lectura. Convicto

Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that cant help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later

El mexicano retrata la pasión revolucionaria de un joven que se pone al servicio del levantamiento contra el general Porfirio Díaz en el México de 1910. El taciturno Felipe Rivera tiene unos ojos fríos que «arden» cuando se habla de la revolución. Dispuesto a todo para aportar fondos a la causa, se ofrece a participar en un combate de boxeo.

Located in the Solomon Islands, this devastating portrayal of copra plantation slavery has scholars arguing whether London was criticizing the racism of the colonialists or approving of it.

The best Hawaii stories, and among Londons best stories overall, including "Shin Bones" and "The Water Baby."

Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its name from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his (American) Indian captors plans to torture him. The book includes Londons best-known short story, "To Build a Fire".

Pubblicato nel 1900, "Il figlio del lupo" e la prima raccolta di racconti di Jack London. Lautore, allora poco piu che ventenne, veniva da anni di fallimenti prima come scrittore e poi come cercatore doro nel Klondike.I 9 racconti pubblicati tra il 1899 e il 1900 gli diedero pero la fama e fecero scoprire il suo talento nel descrivere i territori di frontiera del profondo nord in cui ambientera, di li a pochi anni, i suoi capolavori.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Sea Wolf (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure about a literary critic and survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation...