The story is set 60 years later as one of the survivors attempts to pass on a lifetime of wisdom and experience to his grandsons.
Particularly noteworthy in this collection is the interrelationship between London's nonfiction and his fiction--and the demonstration of how both these genres were vitally related not only to each other but also to the author's personal ...
Jack London: The Socialist Writings represents the most comprehensive collection of London's political texts available. This volume contains the full texts of London's most significant socialist works.
Jack London has captivated millions of readers around the world with his classic tales of the high seas and untamed wilderness.
This is the first volume by Jack London, CALL OF THE WILD WHITE FANG THE SEA-WOLF KLONDIKE AND OTHER STORIESJohn Griffith "Jack" London January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916 was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
"I had a dim notion of escaping, and I crawled on hands and knees to the winch, where I managed to drag myself to my feet. From there I could look aft and see three heads on top the cabin—the heads of three sailors I had given orders to ...
I sat down on deck beside the winch and looked up. Perched in the crosstrees was Saxtorph. How he had managed it I can't imagine, for he had carried up with him two Winchesters and I don't know how many bandoliers of ammunition; ...
I sat down on deck beside the winch and looked up. Perched in the crosstrees was Saxtorph. How he had managed it I can't imagine, for he had carried up with him two Winchesters and I don't know how many bandoliers of ammunition; ...
Looks at the life and works of the author known for his adventure stories, including "Call of the Wild."
He completed eighth grade at the Cole Grammar School , but like many other children during that time , he did not go on to high school . In school Jack learned his lessons quickly . Although he was bashful when he had to recite a ...
A biography of the reowned American author focusing on the many adventures of his short, turbulent life and their reflection in his novels and stories
Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all. Six days of exhausting toil were required to cover those thirty terrible miles. And terrible they were, for every foot of ...
The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of the frost , and they seemed to lean toward each other , black and ominous , in the fading light . A vast silence reigned over the land .
An old Cole Grammar School classmate, James Hopper, met up with him one day on campus. Then an upperclassman and varsity football player, Hopper was impressed by the freshmen's youthful vivacity: [London] had a curly mop.
Edition originale, 1977.
Jack London: eine Biographie
This book contains novels and short stories of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publication.
This is a rare biography, from bestselling historian Alex Kershaw, that proves the truth can be more fascinating--and a far greater adventure--than a fiction.
In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new ...
He empathized with underdogs ranging from Mexicans and lepers to the African-American boxer Jack Johnson, but he uncritically accepted California prejudices about Asian immigration and “the yellow peril.” Here, in this essay by award ...