Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 04 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon. Beginnings The book begins with Billy as a Teamster and Saxon working in a laundry. Billy has also boxed professionally with some success, but decided there was no future in it. He was particularly upset by one bout in which he was fighting a friend and they had to continue fighting and making a good show of it after his friend injured a hand. Billy and Saxon's early married life is disrupted by a major wave of strikes. Billy is involved in violent attacks on strikebreakers, and goes to jail. Saxon loses her baby in the backwash of the violence. She hears socialist arguments but does not definitively accept them, later meeting an old woman with an individualist view on relationships, describing how she successfully attached herself to a series of rich men. She also meets a lad called Jack who has built his own boat and seems to be based on Jack London himself as a teenager. Rural Quest When Billy is released from jail, Saxon insists that they leave the city and try to find their own farm, though they discover that the government no longer gives out land freely. They pass through an area dominated by the Portuguese, who are described to have arrived very poor and prospered by using the land more intensively than earlier European settlers, whom they displaced. A few days of their journey are spent with a middle-class woman who grows flowers and vegetables and has a flourishing business selling high-quality products to the wealthy. Moving on, they take a liking to an artists' colony but decide to continue looking for their own place. Billy begins dealing in horses as well as driving them. He returns to the boxing ring, using a new name so he will not be identified against an up-and-coming boxer, and wins the fight within seconds. He uses his reward of 300 dollars to buy a pair of horses and, after a victory in a rematch, resolves to fight no more. They also encounter well-known writer and journalist 'Jack Hastings', generally considered to be a self-portrait of Jack London at the time of the book's conception. Hasting's wife-presumably modeled after London's second wife-is described as bearing some semblance to Saxon. They discuss the wastefulness of the early American farmers, namely their habits of exhausting land and moving on, reflecting Jack London's views on sustainable agriculture. Directed to their 'Valley of the Moon', Billy and Saxon settle and live there happily at the book's end. 'Sonoma Valley' is considered by a character to be a Native American name meaning 'Valley of the Moon', though this is disputed outside of Jack London's beliefs. 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". In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years. The Snark was named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline and 55 feet on deck, and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 04 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon. Beginnings The book begins with Billy as a Teamster and Saxon working in a laundry. Billy has also boxed professionally with some success, but decided there was no future in it. He was particularly upset by one bout in which he was fighting a friend and they had to continue fighting and making a good show of it after his friend injured a hand. Billy and Saxon's early married life is disrupted by a major wave of strikes. Billy is involved in violent attacks on strikebreakers, and goes to jail. Saxon loses her baby in the backwash of the violence. She hears socialist arguments but does not definitively accept them, later meeting an old woman with an individualist view on relationships, describing how she successfully attached herself to a series of rich men. She also meets a lad called Jack who has built his own boat and seems to be based on Jack London himself as a teenager. Rural Quest When Billy is released from jail, Saxon insists that they leave the city and try to find their own farm, though they discover that the government no longer gives out land freely. They pass through an area dominated by the Portuguese, who are described to have arrived very poor and prospered by using the land more intensively than earlier European settlers, whom they displaced. A few days of their journey are spent with a middle-class woman who grows flowers and vegetables and has a flourishing business selling high-quality products to the wealthy. Moving on, they take a liking to an artists' colony but decide to continue looking for their own place. Billy begins dealing in horses as well as driving them. He returns to the boxing ring, using a new name so he will not be identified against an up-and-coming boxer, and wins the fight within seconds. He uses his reward of 300 dollars to buy a pair of horses and, after a victory in a rematch, resolves to fight no more. They also encounter well-known writer and journalist 'Jack Hastings', generally considered to be a self-portrait of Jack London at the time of the book's conception. Hasting's wife-presumably modeled after London's second wife-is described as bearing some semblance to Saxon. They discuss the wastefulness of the early American farmers, namely their habits of exhausting land and moving on, reflecting Jack London's views on sustainable agriculture. 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". In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years. The Snark was named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline and 55 feet on deck, and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat. After many delays, Jack and Charmian London and a small crew sailed out of San Francisco Bay on April 23, 1907, bound for the South Pacific.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 12 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 13 of 17 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 03 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story follows the unnamed protagonist and his irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, a man with a "moon-face". The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 12 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. A classic non-fiction work which describes the struggle for survival by the working class during Jack London's day and age.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 01 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity. The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903.
Download or read book The Works of Jack London Vol 13 of 17 written by Jack London and published by Moon Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. After death of the captain, the crew of a ship split between the two senior surviving mates. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 04 of 17 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story follows the unnamed protagonist and his irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, a man with a "moon-face". The novel is based on the fictional "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard, which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 16 of 17 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. A classic non-fiction work which describes the struggle for survival by the working class during Jack London's day and age.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 11 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 23 of 25 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. After death of the captain, the crew of a ship split between the two senior surviving mates. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902.
Download or read book The Works of Jack London Vol 10 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Moon Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Jack London Vol 16 of 25 written by Jack London and published by Papersky Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearts of Three is an adventure novel by Jack London. The novel was finished right before the writer's death and released in 1919-1920 in the New York Journal. Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American writer Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 16 of 17 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. A classic non-fiction work which describes the struggle for survival by the working class during Jack London's day and age.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Jack London Vol 06 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time.
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