Bücher von Jack London

Revolution, and Other Essays, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Scorn of Women: A Play In Three Acts, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

"There was imperative need to be constantly alert, for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.". The Call of the Wild has endured over one hundred years as an unforgettable adventure story about a dog and his humans as they test the thin line between civilization and the wild. Immerse yourself in the sometimes heartfelt and sometimes brutal story of Buck as he goes from the life of a pampered pet to a new existence ruled by primal instinct. The action swiftly moves along from one exciting chapter to the next, keeping the pages turning to the end. Unabridged 1903 edition.Keynote Classics Featuring Introductory Key and wide margins for notations and comments.Get more from your reading experience, and remember, discuss, or write more confidently about classic literature. Keynote Classics¿ begin with an Introductory Key to the work with hints about what to look for to get a deeper understanding. Unlike other literature study guides, they contain no spoilers and don't give away themes, motifs, and symbols found in the novel. Instead, they point out general ideas and things to pay attention to that help you find your own interpretations. Brief historical context is also provided about the author and the time and place the novel was written to help gain important perspective.Teachers recommend that you read actively and engage with the text to help you draw on your own knowledge and experience to get more out of a novel. Keynote Classics¿ paperbacks provide more space in the margins for writing down thoughts, connections, and interpretations as you read.

The first anthology of short stories by Jack London, Lost Face tells seven stories about the Klondike gold rush. In ¿Lost Face,¿ the fur thief Subienkow faces gruesome torture and execution by a tribe of Indians, armed with only his wits. ¿Trust¿ is a story about the dangers of the Yukon River. Jack London¿s best known short story, ¿To Build a Fire,¿ tells the story of a nameless man and his dog attempting to survive in the frozen Northern Territory. In ¿That Spot,¿ the eponymous Spot is a very unusual Yukon sled dog. ¿Flush of Gold¿ is a love story set against the harsh backdrop of the Yukon. ¿The Passing of Marcus O¿Brien¿ deals the tale of the fair-but-tough Judge Marcus O¿Brien in the settlement of Red Cow. ¿The Wit of Porportuk¿ tells the tale of El-Soo and Porportuk, two Indians among the white settlers.

Martin Eden is a young, hard working man of the working class. After a chance encounter with a beautiful woman of the bourgeoisie, he finds himself in love. In order to win this woman¿s approval he decides to educate himself: He corrects his speech, he learns proper manners, and he reads the classics of literature, philosophy, and science.Eventually they become engaged, and he decides to become a writer. But he¿s continually flummoxed by the greedy and unintelligent editors who are incapable of understanding his work, and by a society that values money as the pinnacle of success.In Martin Eden, Jack London weaves in several details from his own life and experience as an early writer. However, unlike the titular character, a self-described ¿individualist¿ and ¿Nietzsche-man,¿ London was in reality a vocal socialist, and had intended Martin Eden to be an unflattering caricature of a man who seeks only self-improvement instead of class-improvement. Ironically this was unremarked upon in contemporary reviews. As he inscribed in a copy of the novel given to Upton Sinclair, ¿One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism. I must have bungled it, for not a single reviewer has discovered it.¿

White Fang is Jack London¿s companion novel to The Call of the Wild. In The Call of the Wild we follow a dog¿s journey from domestication to wilderness, but in White Fang we see the opposite: a wild wolf-dog captured by men and eventually domesticated.White Fang¿s journey isn¿t an easy one; both the wild and civilization have their share of brutal violence. But he eventually seems happy in a home with a loving family. When read side-by-side with The Call of the Wild, White Fang poses an interesting question: is wilderness really an improvement over civilization? Is there one right way to live?

After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be rescued by the seal-hunting schooner Ghost. Wolf Larsen, the captain of the Ghost, is brutal and cynical but also highly intelligent, and he has no intention of returning Van Weyden to shore. Van Weyden is forced to serve on the Ghost, leaving behind his comfortable world ashore and entering into a psychological battle with Larsen on the sea.Jack London wrote The Sea-Wolf in 1904 following the success of his previous novel The Call of the Wild, and it has gone on to become one of his most popular novels. London actually served on a sealing schooner during his early career and that experience lends a gritty realism to his depiction of life at sea. The book can be read as a psychological thriller and adventure novel, but can also be read as a criticism of Nietzsche¿s Übermensch philosophy with Wolf Larsen embodying a ¿superman¿ lacking conventional morality.

Jack London spent nearly a year in Alaska and the Klondike, mining for gold and braving the Alaskan winter. There he was inspired to write what would become The Call of the Wild, one of his most famous novels. The Call of the Wild tells the tale of a domesticated dog stolen from his California family and sold to sledders in Alaska. As he adapts to the harsh and wild environment, he slowly sheds domestication and returns to his primal roots.The Call of the Wild was London¿s first major success, ensuring he¿d have a readership for his future writing and paving the way for him to become one of the first writers to amass a fortune from just his fiction.

Released in 1911, When God Laughs, and Other Stories is the eleventh collection of short stories by Jack London. In contrast with most of his other work that had been released at the time, When God Laughs is set in Polynesia. The book consists of twelve short stories that range from humorous to shocking.

A collection of stories that highlight the trials and tribulations of life in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush. Greed, determination, compassion, competition, and survival dominate as native tribes intermingle with western settlers. Despite the laws that each culture abides by, the law of the wilderness will overcome you when unprepared.