Jack London's Short stories
Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Author: | Jack London | ISBN: | 1230000243031 |
| Publisher: | Seng Books | Publication: | May 29, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jack London |
| ISBN: | 1230000243031 |
| Publisher: | Seng Books |
| Publication: | May 29, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Jack London's Short stories contained 12 works written by 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 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 a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
These are the 12 works of Jack London in this book:
1. The King of Mazy May (1899)
2. The God of His Fathers (1901)
3. The Faith of Men (1904)
4. Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905)
5. Moon-Face & Other Stories (1906)
6. Lost Face (1910)
7. South Sea Tales (1911)
8. When God Laughs (1911)
9. The Night-Born (1913)
10. The House of Pride (1919)
11. On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
12. Dutch Courage & Other Stories(1922)
Jack London's Short stories contained 12 works written by 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 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 a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
These are the 12 works of Jack London in this book:
1. The King of Mazy May (1899)
2. The God of His Fathers (1901)
3. The Faith of Men (1904)
4. Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905)
5. Moon-Face & Other Stories (1906)
6. Lost Face (1910)
7. South Sea Tales (1911)
8. When God Laughs (1911)
9. The Night-Born (1913)
10. The House of Pride (1919)
11. On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
12. Dutch Courage & Other Stories(1922)
