Jack London Collection (ePub)
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This Excellent Collection brings together Jack London's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jack London's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé "The People of the Abyss", "War of the Classes", and "Before Adam".
This Collection included:
- A Daughter of the Snows
- The Call of the Wild
- The Sea-Wolf
- The Game
- White Fang
- The Iron Heel
- Martin Eden
- Burning Daylight
- Adventure
- The Scarlet Plague
- A Son of the Sun
- The Valley of the Moon
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
- The Little Lady of the Big House
- Jerry of the Islands
- Michael, Brother of Jerry
- Before Adam
- The Son of the Wolf
- Children of the Frost
- Tales of the Fish Patrol
- Lost Face
- South Sea Tales
- The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
- Smoke Bellew
- The Turtles of Tasman
- On the Makaloa Mat
- The Road
- John Barleycorn
- When God Laughs and Other Stories
- Dutch Courage and Other Stories
- The Human Drift and Other Stories
- The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
- Love of Life and Other Stories
- The Red One
- The Night-Born
- War of the Classes
- The Faith of Men
- The Strength of the Strong
- Moon-Face and Other Stories
- A Thousand Deaths
- Up The Slide
- The Sundog Trail
- The Acorn-Planter
- Theft
- The People of the Abyss
- Revolution and Other Essays
- The Cruise of the Snark
Early Years
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. Jack, as he came to call himself as a boy, was the son of Flora Wellman, an unwed mother, and William Chaney, an attorney, journalist and pioneering leader in the new field of American astrology. His father was never part of his life, and his mother ended up marrying John London, a Civil War veteran, who moved his new family around the Bay Area before settling in Oakland. London grew up working-class. He carved out his own hardscrabble life as a teen. He rode trains, pirated oysters, shoveled coal, worked on a sealing ship on the Pacific and found employment in a cannery. In his free time he hunkered down at libraries, soaking up novels and travel books.
The Young Writer
His life as a writer essentially began in 1893. That year he had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story. Armed with just an eighth-grade education, London captured the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford. For London, the contest was an eye-opening experience, and he decided to dedicate his life to writing short stories. But he had trouble finding willing publishers. After trying to make a go of it on the East Coast, he returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, before heading north to
- Autor: Jack London
- 2024, 5000 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
- ISBN-10: 6257287316
- ISBN-13: 9786257287319
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2024
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