Jack London, Sailor on Horseback
Author : Irving Stone
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1947
Category : London, Jack
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Author : Irving Stone
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1947
Category : London, Jack
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Author : Irving Stone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 1938
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ISBN : 9781404750968
Author : Irving Stone
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Biography of Jack London, originally published in 1938 as "Sailor on horseback".
Author : Jack London
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
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ISBN : 9781502350589
Four Horses and a Sailor is a short story by Jack London. 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. He is best remembered as the author of 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 expose The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London's time in the Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health. Like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen, leading to the loss of his four front teeth. A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, and his face was stricken with marks that always reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike. Father William Judge, "The Saint of Dawson," had a facility in Dawson that provided shelter, food and any available medicine to London and others. His struggles there inspired London's short story, "To Build a Fire" (1902, revised in 1908), which many critics assess as his best. His landlords in Dawson were mining engineers Marshall Latham Bond and Louis Whitford Bond, educated at Yale and Stanford. The brothers' father, Judge Hiram Bond, was a wealthy mining investor. The Bonds, especially Hiram, were active Republicans. Marshall Bond's diary mentions friendly sparring with London on political issues as a camp pastime. London left Oakland with a social conscience and socialist leanings; he returned to become an activist for socialism. He concluded that his only hope of escaping the work "trap" was to get an education and "sell his brains." He saw his writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty, and, he hoped, a means of beating the wealthy at their own game. On returning to California in 1898, London began working deliberately to get published, a struggle described in his novel, Martin Eden (serialized in 1908, published in 1909). His first published story since high school was "To the Man On Trail," which has frequently been collected in anthologies. When The Overland Monthly offered him only five dollars for it-and was slow paying-London came close to abandoning his writing career. In his words, "literally and literarily I was saved" when The Black Cat accepted his story "A Thousand Deaths," and paid him $40-the "first money I ever received for a story." London began his writing career just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, about $71,000 in today's currency. Among the works he sold to magazines was a short story known as either "Diable" (1902) or "Batard" (1904), in two editions of the same basic story; London received $141.25 for this story on May 27, 1902. In the text, a cruel French Canadian brutalizes his dog, and the dog retaliates and kills the man. London told some of his critics that man's actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this in another story, The Call of the Wild.
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Death row inmates
ISBN :
"The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374178488
"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101105240
The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life
Author : Irving Stone
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385140843
London's domestic life and literary endeavors are intertwined in this dramatic account of his career
Author : Caroline Crawford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781015942479
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805097570
-A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---