The Jack London Classics Collection

The Jack London Classics Collection
Author: Jack London
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9789357249409

In One Book, Five Novels! The five most well-known and significant novels by Jack London are collected in a single, handy volume: Martin Eden; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea-Wolf and The Iron Heel. Novelist and social activist John London was an American who lived from 1876 until 1916. He was a pioneer in the field of commercial fiction and one of the first American writers to achieve literary stardom on a global scale. He also made significant contributions to the growth of the science fiction subgenre. He is still regarded as one of the most enduringly well-liked and significant American authors of his time, and both young and elderly readers adore him.

Short Stories of Jack London

Short Stories of Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Free Press
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780020223719

A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales

The Letters of Jack London

The Letters of Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 1828
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780804715072

The standard edition of the remarkable American short story writer's letters. Published in 1988

Jack London: a Man in Search of Meaning

Jack London: a Man in Search of Meaning
Author: Stewart Gabel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1477283331

Jack London was the best known and probably the most widely read American author at the turn of the 20th century. London was interested in the issues of who humans are in relation to one another, to other species, and to life itself. Much of London's life and writing can be viewed from psychological perspectives as an exploration of the issue of meaning in life generally and as a quest for meaning in his own life. C. G. Jung was an early psychoanalyst who broke from Freud and established his own school of analytical psychology. Jung was himself intensely concerned with the issue of meaning. For Jung, the "decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?" (page 325). Jack London certainly would have agreed with the crucial nature of this question. In Jack London: A Man in Search of Meaning. Jungian Perspectives, the author uses the prism of analytical psychology to examine London's life and quest for meaning from deeply psychological and archetypal perspectives that are revealed in London's writings, both fictional and nonfictional. The book begins with a brief biographical sketch and personality description of Jack London. This is followed by a focus on the question of meaning in his life. The next chapter addresses the issue of meaning from the perspective of analytical psychology (Jung). Selected fiction from three periods in London's career is considered analytically in subsequent chapters. These periods are his early adult, middle and last years. The discussion of each work of fiction is preceded by a brief biographical statement of events in London's life at the time of the writing and a brief review of the narrative. A concluding chapter summarizes London's quest for meaning and where it might have led him from the perspectives of analytical psychology if he had lived beyond his untimely death at 40 years of age. There are two appendices. One contains a longer biographical statement (Appendix A). The second (Appendix B) provides longer, more detailed summaries of the works that are discussed. These longer descriptions include quotes from the texts, themselves, that reveal the immediacy, passion and soulful flavor of so much of London's writings.

Jack London

Jack London
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1984-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780517413784

Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)

Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1470
Release: 1983-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780940450097

Well over a century after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. 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.

Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781883011765

The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green. 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.

Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry (LOA #18)

Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry (LOA #18)
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 1422
Release: 1984-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780940450172

Here in one volume are all of Stephen Crane's best-known works, including the novels The Red Badge of Courage, about a young and confused Union soldier under fire for the first time; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a vivid portrait of slum life and a young girl's fall; George's Mother, about New York's Bowery and its effect on a young workingman; The Third Violet, about a bohemian artist's country romance; and The Monster, a novella about sacrifice and rescue. The stories collected here include masterpieces like "The Open Boat," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky," as well as tales of childhood in small-town America. In his journalism, the best of which is presented here, Crane covered the Spanish-American and Grego-Turkish wars, traveled through Mexico and the West, and reported on the seamier sides of New York City life. The volume concludes with The Black Riders and War Is Kind, collections of epigrammatic free verse that look back to Emily Dickinson and forward to Imagism. 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.