A Daughter of the Snows;A good soldier;A son of the sun;Adventure;Before Adam;Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews;Burning Daylight;Call of the wild;Children of the Frost;Dutch Courage and Other Stories;Faith of men;Hearts of three;Jerry of the Islands;John Barleycorn, or, Alcoholic memoirs;Lost Face;Love of life, and other stories;...
A Daughter of the Snows (1902) 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...
It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these...
Adventure tells about the confrontation between a man who finds himself alone in front of a plantation - harassed by blacks cannibals - and a bold, independent and liberated feminist woman, Joan Lackland, who's arrival at the plantation turns everything upside down... Published in 1911, this novel, a devastating portrayal of colonialism and slavery set in the Solomon Islands, has...
Something to be done.
Something is done.
The Jessie.
Joan Lackland.
She would a planter be.
Tempest.
A hard-bitten gang.
Local colour.
As between a man and a woman.
A message from boucher.
The port adams crowd.
Mr. Morgan and Mr. Raff.
The logic of youth.
The martha.
A discourse on manners.
The girl who had not grown up.
«Your» Miss Lackland.
Making the books come...
London: Hesperus Press, 2013.
First written 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 as a man-like creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember...
Жанры/поджанры: Фантастика Общие характеристики: Приключенческое Место действия: (Америка (Северная ) Время действия: Дочеловеческие времена | 20 век | Каменный век Сюжетные ходы: Становление/взросление героя Линейность сюжета: Линейно-параллельный Возраст читателя: Любой
Brown wolf That spot Trust All gold canyon The story of keesh Nam-bok the unveracious Yellow handkerchief Make westing The heathen The hobo and the fairy "Just meat" A nose for the king
While living in sunny California, 'Brown Wolf', the dog-wolf is feeling the call of the wild nature of the desolate and frigid North. Neither the affection that surrounds him, nor the good living conditions can make him overcome his innermost desire to go back to his roots... Brown wolf That spot Trust All gold canyon The story of keesh Nam-bok the unveracious Yellow...
It is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. "Burning Daylight" takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, Elam Harnish, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character...
"Children of the Frost" is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. This collection shows the adventures and misadventures of the “children” alluded in the title: members of several Native-American tribes of the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the XXth Century, on the backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush amidst an harsh, unforgiving,...
3rd edition. — Delphi Classics, 2011 — 14 533 p. America’s beloved storyteller Jack London was a pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, winning worldwide celebrity through famous novels such as ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’ and inspiring readers across the world with tales of the Klondike Gold Rush. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Jack London,...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 9946 p. America’s beloved storyteller Jack London was a pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, winning worldwide celebrity through famous novels such as ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’ and inspiring readers across the world with tales of the Klondike Gold Rush. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Jack London, with numerous...
"Dutch Courage and Other Stories" - by Jack London is a group of London's short stories originally published in 1922 which were never before published in book form. The book is especially suited to the boy reader. "Dutch Courage" from which the collection takes its name, is the story of two boys on Half-Dome in the Yosemite Valley. Others include: "The Lost Poacher," "Chris...
In the words of Jack London: "I have written some novels of adventure in my time, but never, in all of the many of them, have I perpetrated a totality of action equal to what is contained in 'Hearts of Three'. "
A novel by Jack London written in 1920. Novelization of a script by Charles Goddard. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaneywas), 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...
"Jerry of the Islands" is Jack London's story of South Sea adventure told through the eyes of a loyal and intelligent dog. Jerry is a six-month old Irish Terrier. He has lived all his life with his mother and father on a plantation in the Solomon Islands. His life is simple and enjoyable and safe. When his beloved Mister Higgins suddenly takes him away on a boat and gives him to...
"John Barleycorn" is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of drinking and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn". In this memoir, there are the themes of masculinity and male friendship. London discusses various life experiences he has had with alcohol, and at widely...
It is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its named from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his Indian captors' plans to torture him. This collection includes London's best-known short story, "To Build a Fire". It tells the story of a new traveler in the Klondike who ignores warnings about traveling...
A collection of eight short stories from American author, journalist, and social activist Jack London. Written during his 'Klondike' period, the title story 'Love of Life' follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Love of Life The Story of Keesh A Day's Lodging Negore, The Coward The Sun Dog Trail The Unexpected The White Man's Way Brown Wolf
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, "Negore, the Coward," relates to the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, and shows what a man will do to retain a woman's love and wipe from his name an undeserved affix.
Written in 1909 by Jack London (1876-1916) This version originally published in 2005 by Infomotions, Inc. This document is distributed under the GNU Public License.
This book is considered to be authobiograohical one. It is good for reading and analysis at homerading and literature classes at linguistic and philological Universities.
The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a...
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Eden represents writers' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a "cunning arrangement of cogs" immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip.[citation needed] The...
This book is considered to be authobiograohical one. It is good for reading and analysis at homerading and literature classes at linguistic and philological Universities.
From the publisher martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden's impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the...
СПб.: КАРО, 2009. — 512 с. «Мартин Иден» — один из самых известных романов знаменитого американского писателя Джека Лондона (1876–1916). Роман во многом автобиографичен — писатель, как и его герой, вышел из низов общества и добился выдающихся успехов в литературе исключительно собственными усилиями. В предлагаемой вниманию читателей книге представлен неадаптированный текст...
Рассказ, который вызывает стыд. За себя.
Биться до конца, кусаться, когда и зубов то уж нет, а вокруг одни волки. Кто так сможет? Вычеркнутым из жизни надеяться не на что!
Голодный, худой, избитый. Он казался посмешищем на боксерском ринге, а все янки делали ставки, радуясь легкой наживе, ведь он не устоит. У них было все: теплые дома, любящие дети, уверенность в завтрашнем...
Michael, a likeable, gentle dog, is found on the beach by the crewmen of a whaleboat who believe he can be a turned into a profitable show dog. However, such an endeavor cannot be launched without cruelty to the animal. Michael is a dog. An exceptional dog. A rough-coated, crinkle eared Irish terrier, playful and intelligent, he can effectively count to five and 'sing' 'Home,...
The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him...
Published posthumously, this collection of seven short stories and sketches creates a fascinating portrait of life on the picturesque Hawaiian Islands. Brimming with vivid descriptions of the sea and forest, these tales examine the lives of an array of characters and the effect upon them of their contact with Western civilization. On the Makaloa Mat The Bones of Kahekili When...
Christopher Bellew is a success in the eyes of the world, engaged with the San Francisco paper and penning stories daily... but for no pay. When Klondike fever strikes the region, he sees his chance to break from drudgery – starting him on a journey that takes him over mountain passes and down swirling rapids, removing him forever from the world he knew and the man he was. Taking...
South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship.
Nautical-themed collection of five short stories.
Includes:
Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan (Jack London's first story, published at the age of seventeen)
Chris Farrington: Able Seaman
The Lost Poacher
The Banks of the Sacramento
In Yeddo Bay
In this classic collection of stories drawn from his own experiences, the author looks back on his days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay. In the early 1900s, men of all stripes descended on these waters to plunder its rich oyster beds. To stop the run on the waters, a patrol was established. Jack London began his youthful adventures on the wrong side of...
No publication info. Sam Stubener, a boxing manager in San Francisco, travels to a remote log cabin in northern California on getting a letter from retired boxer Pat Glendon, who lives there with his son, Pat Glendon Jr, a promising young boxer. Pat Jr fights well; otherwise, he knows little of city life; he hunts and fishes in the forest, he reads poetry and avoids women. Sam...
In the morning of the world, while his tribe makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty of life, which duty is to make life more abundant. The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who commands in war, sings that war is the only way to life. This Red...
Tells the story of the magnificent dog Buck, who is a loyal pet until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for the gold of the Klondike, where he breaks free and becomes the leader of a ferocious wolf pack.
Издание: 1900 г.
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in...
The call of the wild illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Chas. Edw. Hooper. - Published 1904 by Macmillan in New York. The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London's most popular novels. The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140lb Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the...
Tells the story of the magnificent dog Buck, who is a loyal pet until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for the gold of the Klondike, where he breaks free and becomes the leader of a ferocious wolf pack.
"The Cruise of the Dazzler" is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities. The nautical activities on board a sailing...
"The Cruise of the Snark" (1911) is a non-fictional book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these...
The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. A Relic of the...
The Game
повесть, 1904 год;
язык - английский;
Описание:Молодой парень Джо удачный боксер и всеобщий любимец публики. Он собирается провести свой последний бой и завязать со спортом, который стоит между ним и его невестой Женевьевой.
Jack London. The God of his fathers On every hand stretched the forest primeval, - the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still to overlap in the Land of the Rainbow's End - and this was the very heart of it - nor had Yankee gold yet purchased its vast domain. 11 страниц
The Human Drift Small-Boat Sailing Four Horses and a Sailor Nothing that Ever Came to Anything That Dead Men Rise up Never A Classic of the Sea A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) The Birth Mark (Sketch)
Хотелось бы начать с того, как меня поразил язык автора. Красивые словосочетания, предложения, построенные так, что заставляют работать мозг.
Я с интересом читала Железную пяту. Меня поразил факт, что книга, которая по сути открывает внутреннее устройство буржуазного мира, описывает экономическое состояние жизни страны, может быть настолько увлекательно и интересно подана. Еще...
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories...
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories...
"The Star Rover", in the UK published as "The Jacket", is a collection of short stories revolves around the concept of reincarnation. It tells the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life —and long stretches in a straitjacket— by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an...
The novel presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex, written in the form of a series of letters between two men, "Herbert Wace," a young scientist, and "Dane Kempton," an elderly poet. Writer Jack London wrote "Wace's" letters, and Anna Strunsky wrote "Kempton's." In the late 19th century, the authors were part of a San Francisco radical literary group known as "The...
The Little Lady of the Big House (1915) is a novel by American writer Jack London. The story concerns a love triangle. London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish — in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength."
Джек Лондон считал роман "Маленькая хозяйка Большого дома" лучшим своим произведением. Здесь он предстает перед читателями певцом романтической любви. Любовный треугольник, сложные душевные переживания героев, каждый из которых — неординарная личность. Финал книги трагичен, и это, как считал сам автор, единственно возможный "чистый и благородный" выход из создавшегося положения....
"The Mutiny of the Elsinore" is a novel first published in 1914. After death of the captain, the crew of a ship split between the two senior surviving mates. During the conflict, the narrator develops as a strong character, rather as in The Sea-Wolf. It also includes some strong right views which were part of London's complex world-view. The novel is partially based on London's...
Includes:
The Night-Born
The Madness of John Harned
When the World Was Young
The Benefit of the Doubt
Winged Blackmail
Bunches of Knuckles
War
Under the deck awnings
To Kill a Man
The Mexican
London wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. This nonfiction book is considered by some to be a brilliant piece of journalism. From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the...
The Red One" is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of "The Cosmopolitan", two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name. The story is told from the perspective of a scientist called Bassett, who is on an expedition in the jungle of...
Though most of Jack London's novels and short stories fall firmly into the action-adventure category, the prolific author occasionally ventured into other genres, as well. Although The Red One, like many of London's tales, is set among an indigenous tribe, the story -- which details the discovery of a strange object of worship which seems to have originated in another world --...
"The Road" is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money,...
"The Scarlet Plague" is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his...
История о капитане шхуны «Призрак» «Волке» Ларсоне, странной личности: безжалостном, грубом, сильном человеке и в то же время своеобразном философе. а точнее, история о человеке, который по воле обстоятельств заново учится жить и выживать.
роман (на англ. языке).
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication...
The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. This ship's evil captain, Wolf Larsen - The Sea-Wolf - is a murderous tyrant who uses his superhuman strength to torture and destroy, his brilliant mind to invent sick games, and his relentless will to control his mutinous crew. Pressed...
Carmen won'T last more than a couple of days. ' Mason spat out a chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her foot in his mouth and proceeded to bite out the ice which clustered cruelly between the toes.
Carmen won't last more than a couple of days. ' Mason spat out a. chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her. foot in his mouth and proceeded to bite out the ice which. clustered cruelly between the toes.
By the Turtles of the Tasman The Eternity of Forms Told in the Drooling Ward The Hobo and the Fairy The Prodigal Father The First Poet Finis The End of the Story
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently-a journey that echoes Jack London's own escape from urban poverty. As London lost hope in the prospects of the socialist party...
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently-a journey that echoes Jack London's own escape from urban poverty. As London lost hope in the prospects of the socialist party...
"Theft - A Play in Four Acts" by Jack London - Margaret Chalmers. Twenty-seven years of age; a strong, mature woman, but quite feminine where her heart or sense of beauty are concerned. Her eyes are wide apart. Has a dazzling smile, which she knows how to use on occasion. Also, on occasion, she can be firm and hard, even cynical An intellectual woman, and at the same time a very...
London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. The Call of the Wild, the classic story of sled-dog Buck brought him instant celebrity and established his readership to this day. Self-educated, London was heavily influenced by the works of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche. This, along with...
Memorial Edition. Reprinted by C. H. Kerr & Co., from The Cosmopolitan Magazine. San Francisco, December 3, 1916. 24 pages (e-book). Language: English. George Sterling's Tribute to Jack London. What Life Means To Me by Jack London
This collection of short stories manages to be both eclectic and linked. Every story involves death to some degree. From the tale of an aging boxer struggling to make ends meet to the story of a ship's captained so determined to make headway that he's willing to leave a man behind who fell overboard, every story is well-told. There is a great variety of main characters and...
White Fang is the titular character and a novel by American author Jack London. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's...
White fang / Белый клык. Повесть (на английском языке).
Острый сюжет, столкновение героя со смертельной опасностью, изображение его в критические моменты судьбы - вот своеобразные качества творческого метода писателя. Джек Лондон считается одним из пионеров среди писателей-анималистов в мировой литературе. Повесть "Белый Клык" - блестящий образец литературы этого жанра.
Original Text by Jack London (1906)
White Fang is the titular character and a novel by American author Jack London. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel (and...
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