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Smoke Bellew
Updated at Dec 31, 2020, 00:45
Smoke Bellew by Jack London. A sweeping adventure saga in the tradition of "White Fang and "The Call of the Wild, bringing to vivid life the cold, bleak, unforgiving Alaskan wilderness and the colorful, desperately uncertain lives of both natives and intruders. On a lark, the novel's hero, Christopher Bellew, a San Francisco newspaperman and dandy, sets off on what he believes will be a brief trek into the Klondike to cover the latest gold rush. The lark turns into a rough, raw adventure that transforms the young chekako (tenderfoot) into a tough, hardened survivor.
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The Iron Heel
Updated at Dec 29, 2020, 20:03
The Iron Heel by Jack London. Set in the future, “The Iron Heel” describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London’s multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century.
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The Little Lady of the Big House
Updated at Dec 29, 2020, 20:01
The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London. 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 to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide.  It was Jack Londons last novel to be published during his lifetime.
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South Sea Tales
Updated at Dec 28, 2020, 22:54
South Sea Tales by Jack London. Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author’s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic.
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Michael' Brother of Jerry
Updated at Dec 24, 2020, 23:58
Michael Brother of Jerry by Jack London. Michael, an Irish terrier, was born and raised in the Solomon Islands. The dog now works as a slave hunter aboard a schooner on a mission to recruit native islanders for work. One day the captain accidentally leaves Michael on a beach and sails away. Michael is then abducted by Dag Daughtry, a steward on another ship, who initially planned to sell the dog for money. However, later he got attached to Michael and takes the dog to a trip around the world.
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The Sea Wolf
Updated at Dec 24, 2020, 23:46
The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful authenticity. In the story, the gentleman narrator, Humphrey Van Weyden, is pitted against an amoral sea captain, Wolf Larsen, in a clash of idealism with materialism. 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. Pressed into service as a cabin boy by the ruthless captain, Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a brutal shipboard drama. Larsen's increasingly violent abuse of the crew fuels a mounting tension that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Read and loved around the world, this 1904 maritime classic has influenced such writers as Hemingway, Orwell, and Kerouac.
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The Star Rover
Updated at Dec 22, 2020, 02:50
The Star Rover by Jack London. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.
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Hearts of Three
Updated at Dec 22, 2020, 01:50
Hearts of Three by Jack London. One of Jack London's last books, Hearts of Three was released in the New York Journal in 1920, four years after his death. It is an action-packed adventure novel about discovering treasure in foreign lands. A descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan, Francis Morgan overcomes great obstacles in the jungle to find the treasure, only to return to New York to find his family's fortune threatened-a real Indiana Jones years before his time.
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Adventure
Updated at Dec 17, 2020, 01:28
Adventure by Jack London. Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. 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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The Turtles of Tasman
Updated at Dec 16, 2020, 22:58
The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London. Published in 1916, this is a collection of very different short stories. There are tales of murder as well as a play set in prehistoric times. “Finis” and “The End of the Story” are classic Jack London Klondike tales of adventure on the trail. “Told in the Drooling Ward” is an often-irreverent look at life in a California mental institution.
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Lost Face
Updated at Dec 16, 2020, 22:55
Lost Face by Jack London. The first anthology of short stories by Jack London, Lost Face tells seven stories about the Klondike gold rush. In “Lost Face,” the fur thief Subienkow faces gruesome torture and execution by a tribe of Indians, armed with only his wits. “Trust” is a story about the dangers of the Yukon River. Jack London’s best known short story, “To Build a Fire,” tells the story of a nameless man and his dog attempting to survive in the frozen Northern Territory. In “That Spot,” the eponymous Spot is a very unusual Yukon sled dog. “Flush of Gold” is a love story set against the harsh backdrop of the Yukon. “The Passing of Marcus O’Brien” deals the tale of the fair-but-tough Judge Marcus O’Brien in the settlement of Red Cow. “The Wit of Porportuk” tells the tale of El-Soo and Porportuk, two Indians among the white settlers.
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Children of the Frost
Updated at Dec 16, 2020, 22:54
Children of the Frost by Jack London. This is a collection of short stories that take place in the Klondike, about the native Americans in Alaska during the time of the gold rush. Most of the stories feature Native Americans. Jack London has a unique, amazing gift for taking the reader into another person's head, making them see and smell and feel the things he writes about. FROM Jack London one knows what to expect - and one expects much. His stories will never add to the gayety of nations. Many of them are distinctly unpleasant, brutal, crude; yet few of our younger writers loom so large upon the literary horizon as this same young man with the spectacular name. He has seen, he has felt, he has understood, and he, has imagined. Moreover, he writes, figuratively speaking, with his fist. In "Children of the Frost" he goes back to his chosen field, to the land of the killing cold and the blinding snow, the land of the Indian, the Eskimo, the voyageur, the trapper, the land beyond the pale, where conventions drop off, and elemental passions hold sway. Grim realism and wild romance consort oddly in the tales. The reader feels the fascination of the mysterious North. These are stories with a grip.
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Updated at Dec 16, 2020, 22:54
The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London. 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 voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912.The character "De Casseres," who espouses nihilistic viewpoints similar to the ideas of French philosopher Jules de Gaultier, is based on London's real-life friend and journalist Benjamin De Casseres.
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Jerry of the Islands
Updated at Dec 16, 2020, 22:50
Jerry of the Islands by Jack London. Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American writer Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of dog named Michael, about whom London wrote another novel-Michael, Brother of Jerry.
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The Human Drift
Updated at Dec 11, 2020, 00:16
The Human Drift by Jack London. The Human Drift by Jack London is a classic collection of tales from one of America's best loved and most respected authors, a great addition to any Jack London  collection. A collection of eight very different short stories by Jack London. The title story, “The Human Drift”, describes the ebb and flow of the world's population over the centuries, highlighting the effect of war and disease on checking the numbers. He talks about sailing on San Francisco Bay in “Small-Boat Sailing” and finishes with two humorous plays, “A Wicked Woman”' and “The Birth Mark”.
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The Strength of the Strong
Updated at Dec 11, 2020, 00:15
The Strength of the Strong by Jack London. A collection of seven short stories including the title piece “The Strength of the Strong”. London uses the stories to advance his views on socialism and highlight the problems of the working classes. He continues to look back with prehistoric tales, but also includes “The Unparalleled Invasion” which looks forward to a Chinese invasion of the world later in the twentieth century.
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The Night Born
Updated at Oct 19, 2020, 20:17
The Night Born by Jack London. A collection of ten short stories covering a range of subjects. It includes another riveting boxing tale, “The Mexican”, along the lines of Jack London's book The Game. “To Kill a Man” describes a woman holding a burglar at gunpoint pondering the decision of whether to shoot to kill him or not. “The Benefit of the Doubt” examines justice and the legal system.
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The Faith of Men
Updated at Oct 19, 2020, 20:17
The Faith of Men by Jack London 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 Hyperborean Brew" also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. "In Batard," an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog. Other stories included are "The Faith of Men," "Too Much Gold," "The One Thousand Dozen," "The Marriage of Lit-Lit," "Batard," and "The Story of Jees Uck.
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The Red One
Updated at Oct 18, 2020, 20:04
The red one by Jack London. The story is told from the perspective of a scientist called Bassett, who is on an expedition in the jungle of Guadalcanal to collect butterflies. The "Red One" of the title refers to a giant red sphere, of apparently extraterrestrial origin, that the headhunting natives worship as their god and to which they perform human sacrifices. Bassett becomes obsessed with the Red One and in the end is sacrificed himself.
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