Jack London Collection - [The Complete Works with Illustrated & Annotated]

Jack London

Verlag: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books

Beschreibung

This Excellent Collection brings together Jack London's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jack London's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

His most famous works include "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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé "The People of the Abyss", "War of the Classes", and "Before Adam".

This Collection included:

1. A Daughter of the Snows
2. The Call of the Wild
3. The Sea-Wolf
4. The Game
5. White Fang
6. The Iron Heel
7. Martin Eden
8. Burning Daylight
9. Adventure
10. The Scarlet Plague
11. A Son of the Sun
12. The Valley of the Moon
13. The Mutiny of the Elsinore
14. The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
15. The Little Lady of the Big House
16. Jerry of the Islands
17. Michael, Brother of Jerry
18. Before Adam
19. The Son of the Wolf
20. Children of the Frost
21. Tales of the Fish Patrol
22. Lost Face
23. South Sea Tales
24. The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
25. Smoke Bellew
26. The Turtles of Tasman
27. On the Makaloa Mat
28. The Road
29. John Barleycorn
30. When God Laughs and Other Stories
31. Dutch Courage and Other Stories
32. The Human Drift and Other Stories
33. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
34. Love of Life and Other Stories
35. The Red One
36. The Night-Born
37. War of the Classes
38. The Faith of Men
39. The Strength of the Strong
40. Moon-Face and Other Stories
41. A Thousand Deaths
42. Up The Slide
43. The Sundog Trail
44. The Acorn-Planter
45. Theft
46. The People of the Abyss
47. Revolution and Other Essays
48. The Cruise of the Snark

Verfügbar seit: 21.01.2024.

Drucklänge: 5000 Seiten.

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