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The Night-Born. by London Jack

The Night-Born. by London Jack

Jack London

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The 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. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.
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White Fang

White Fang

London Jack

Puffin Classics
2008
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Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang - half-dog, half-wolf - is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are the distant memories of affection and love. Will this fiercely independent creature of the wild learn to trust man again? Richard Adams, prize-winning author of Watership Down, introduces this chilling, beautiful tale of the wild.
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White Fang

White Fang

London Jack

Classy Publishing
2021
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White Fang, who is appropriately named thus, is the only pup in the litter of the cunning she-wolf who survives to grow into a ferocious and mean wolf-dog. But does he remain wild and free for the rest of his life? How does he fall into the hands of his bitter enemy, man? How does he come into the good books of his saviour, Scott? How does white Fang repay the man he grows to love and look up to? A thrilling tale of how the wild wolf was domesticated and tamed by man through firmness and love and grew to be a part of a happy, contented human family.
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Il richiamo della foresta

Il richiamo della foresta

London Jack Leggeregiovane

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Il richiamo della foresta un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1903. La storia racconta le vicende del cane Buck, un incrocio tra un sanbernardo e un pastore scozzese, che vive insieme al suo padrone, il giudice Miller nella Santa Clara Valley (California). Un giorno Manuel, il giardiniere, rapisce Buck e lo vende per pagare dei debiti di gioco. Buck viene spedito in Alaska e venduto ad una coppia di canadesi, Fran ois e Perrault, i quali rimangono impressionati dal fisico del cane. I due addestrano Buck come cane da slitta: questi, osservando i propri compagni, apprende velocemente le regole della muta e come sopravvivere alle fredde notti invernali. Buck viene poi venduto ad un uomo di nome Charles, che assieme a sua moglie Mercedes e al fratello Hal, tenta di viaggiare sino a Dawson City. Questi non conoscono assolutamente nulla n di trasporti su slitta n di come sopravvivere nella landa selvaggia dell'Alaska. Nel proseguimento del viaggio si imbattono in John Thornton, un esperto della vita nella natura, che nota il terribile stato in cui sono i cani della muta a causa del maltrattamento dei padroni. Thornton avverte i tre di non attraversare il fiume ghiacciato, ma essi non intendono ascoltare i suoi avvertimenti, ordinando a Buck di proseguire. Questi, esausto, affamato e percependo il pericolo, si rifiuta di obbedire e continua a giacere sulla neve immobile, ansimando e ammiccando. A questo punto Thornton accudisce Buck e lo riporta in piena salute, tra i due si instaura un rapporto di fedele amicizia, amore e devozione. Un giorno Buck salva la vita a Thornton quando questi cade nel fiume, quindi Thornton porta Buck con s in viaggio alla ricerca dell'oro. Una notte per , ritornato da una breve caccia, trova il suo amato padrone e i suoi compari uccisi nel campo da un gruppo di indiani Yeehat. Nello scontro finale Buck uccide gli indiani per vendicare Thornton e, dopo aver capito che la sua vecchia vita solo un ricordo del passato, segue il lupo nella foresta rispondendo al richiamo della vita selvaggia.
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Adventure Jack London

Adventure Jack London

Jack London

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society.
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Jack London

Jack London

Alex Kershaw

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
1998
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A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer. ‘We cannot help but read on’: TLS. ‘The energy, dynamism and sheer bursting life-force of Jack London bowls you over’: Scotsman. Jack London’s life story (1876–1916) is as dramatic as any of the fiction he wrote. Born illegitimate in San Francisco, he was (in his teens) an oyster pirate, seal-hunter, hobo, Klondike goldminer – and spectacular drinker.On publication of The Call of the Wild in 1903, he became the most highly publicised writer in the world. Subsequent books, including Martin Eden, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, John Barleycorn, The Sea Wolf, continue in print as world classics in many languages.Apart from writing 50 books, he lectured for the Socialist Party in America; was a war correspondent in Korea and Mexico; introduced surfing to the West Coast; sailed the seven seas in his yacht, the Snark…
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The Collected Stories of Jack London

The Collected Stories of Jack London

Jack London

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
2000
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One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of adventure vividly capture the struggle to survive against the forces of nature by both men and animals, and often their retreat to a primitive state in the face of death. While these tales brought him the most fame, London also wrote stories that showed his insight into the lives of people who worked at sea, and they areas wonderful as any of his work. The stories in this collection show the wide range of Jack London's storytelling talents, and they continue to thrill readers today just as they have for generations.
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The Portable Jack London

The Portable Jack London

Jack London

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
1994
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Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other - and to all their fellow creatures? This collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel The Call of the Wild; such famous stories as "Love of Life," "To Build a Fire," and "All Gold Canyon"; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters.
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Jack London: A Life

Jack London: A Life

Alex Kershaw

St. Martin's Griffin
1999
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Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California's waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild. A hard-drinking womanizer with children to support, Jack London was no stranger to passion when he met and married Charmian Kittredge, the love of his life. Despite his adventurous past, London had never before met a woman like Charmian; she adored fornication and boxing, and willingly risked life and limb to sail and explore. She typed his manuscripts while he churned out novels, serving as his inspiration and his critic. Lover, fighter, and onetime hobo, Jack London lived large and died before he was forty. 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.
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Jack London

Jack London

Labor Earle

Farrar, Straus Giroux Inc
2014
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Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast - by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed, bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf. London was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favourite animals. At his peak as the highest-paid writer in America, he was nevertheless constantly broke. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice, he burned himself out at forty: sick, angry, and disillusioned, but left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London, the noted scholar Earle Labor explores the forgotten London - at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.
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Best Short Stories of Jack London

Best Short Stories of Jack London

Jack London

Fawcett
1986
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"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about."Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- "while frightfully primitive" -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.
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The Radical Jack London

The Radical Jack London

Jack London

University of California Press
2008
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'Big things are happening secretly all around,' says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel "The Iron Heel," excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, "The Radical Jack London" establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century.
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