Download or read book The Works of Jack London Vol 04 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Moon Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael, Brother of Jerry is a novel by Jack London released in 1917. This novel is the sequel to his previous novel Jerry of the Islands also released in 1917. "Moon-Face" is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1906. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy.

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 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 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 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 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 Works of Jack London Vol 05 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Moon Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse.

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 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 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 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 Short Stories of Jack London written by Jack London and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales

Download or read book Great Short Works of Jack London written by Jack London and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITERATURE-CLASSICS & CONTEMPORARY

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 Jack London written by Earle Labor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of theWild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Download or read book The Works of Jack London Vol 09 of 13 written by Jack London and published by Moon Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is based on the fictional "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard, which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. The Star Rover is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket).