Jack London: 1138 books

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Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its name from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his (American) Indian captors' plans to torture him. The book includes London's best-known short story, "To Build a Fire".

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was 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...

A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. 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...

Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century.  London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today.  This edition of The Red One includes a table of contents.

Survivaliste! Jack London décrit dans cette longue nouvelle la fin du monde civilisé. Prévue en 2013, elle survient suite à une épidémie fulgurante. L'auteur nous décrit à travers le récit d'un grand-père à ses trois petits enfants, l'agonie du monde. Ici pas de zombie, mais...

The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific in a 45-foot yacht. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through...

Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. The author's restless spirit, taste...

Les nouvelles inédites réunies sous le titre En rire ou en pleurer ? révèlent une facette insoupçonnée de la personnalité de Jack London : l’humour. Dans quelques-unes de ces histoires, London renonce au tragique au profit du rire. Mais c’est pour mieux dénoncer la noirceur de la vie : il est des rires qui ressemblent à des sanglots.

Set sail for nautical adventure with Jack London, the author of the action/adventure classic Call of the Wild. These stories are set on islands, ships, and the open sea, and all offer the vivid descriptions and bracing action for which London was best known. A must-read for fans of ripping sea yarns.

Vahşi kapitalizmin "altına hücum" dönemini konu alan yüzlerce eserin çoğu, altın arayıcılarının kişisel öykülerini yüzeysel bir yaklaşımla anlatır. Farklı bakış açısıyla diğerlerinden ayrılan Charlie Chaplin'in Altına Hücum filmi dışında, konuyu değişik...

Novel by Jack London, published in 1908, describing the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police...

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was 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...

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was 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...