Essential Novelists - Jack London

Essential Novelists - Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3967998797

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jack London which are White Fang and The Scarlet Plague. Jack London (January 12, 1876 November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Novels selected for this book: - White Fang - The Scarlet Plague This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

An Autobiography of Jack London

An Autobiography of Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1620873648

Jack London has been a bestselling author for over one hundred years. In his short life (1876–1916), he wrote twenty-five novels, and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. Today he is recognized as a forerunner of such literary giants as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac. Author of a number of well-known, to say nothing of well-loved, stories in our literary canon (White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea Wolf, to name just three), London also worked as a day laborer, Alaskan gold rush prospector, and seaman. He was also an adventurer, journalist, celebrity, polemicist, and drunk. Illustrated throughout with drawings, facsimile pages from his works, and contemporary photographs, many taken by London himself, An Autobiography of Jack London is a revealing portrait of this complicated and fascinating man in his own words, and is largely composed of excerpts from his memoirs: The Road, John Barleycorn, and The Cruise of the Snark. More than a mere biographical summary of a man's life, An Autobiography of Jack London aims to give the reader real insight into the character and personality of this uniquely American literary icon.

Jack London: An American Life

Jack London: An American Life
Author: Earle Labor
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374178488

"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--

The Best of Jack London

The Best of Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher:
Total Pages: 837
Release: 1984
Genre: Short stories
ISBN:

A collection of adventure stories by Jack London.

Five Great Short Stories

Five Great Short Stories
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486153576

Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.

Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6)

Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6)
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1982-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780940450059

This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers. The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog’s sudden entry into the wild and the education necessary for his survival in the ways of the wolf pack. Like many of London’s stories, this one is inspired by the early deprivations of his own pathetically short life: the primitive conditions of life as an oyster pirate in San Francisco; the restless existence of a hobo; the isolation of a prison inmate; the exertion of a laborer in the Oakland slums; and the frustration of a failed prospector for gold in the Alaskan Klondike. White Fang (1906), in which a wolf-dog becomes domesticated out of love for a man, is apparently the reverse side of the process found in The Call of the Wild, yet for many readers its moments of greatest authenticity are those which suggest that, in actual practice, civilization is pretty much a dog’s life for everyone, of “hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony.” Though London was a reader of Marx and Nietzsche and an avowed socialist, he doubted that socialism could ever be put into practice and was convinced of the necessity for a brutal individualism. He thought of The Sea-Wolf (1904), the story of Wolf Larsen and his crew of outcasts on the lawless Alaskan seas, as “an attack upon the superman philosophy,” but the Captain is far more memorable than any of the book’s civilized characters. London is an immensely exciting writer partly because the conflicts in his thinking tend to enhance rather than hinder the romantic and thrilling turns of his plots. The stories of the Klondike, which are based on his personal experiences and the stories of California, Mexico, and the South Seas, span the whole of London’s career as a writer. He is one of the great storytellers in American literature, and his politics, with all their passion and contradiction, come to life through the vigor and red-blooded energy of his prose. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London

The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780806514079

A collection of Jack London popular science fiction short stories, includes "The Star Rover", "Before Adam" and "The Shadow and the Flash"

Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 8

Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 8
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3969878233

Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Science Fiction. Before Adam by Jack London.Armageddon2419 by Philip Francis Nowlan.The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Urania by Camille Flammarion.If you appreciate good books, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!