Jack London
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
"Jack London is a powerful witness to the political upheavals of the twentieth century and their terrifying contradictions. By turns impoverished laborer, renegade adventurer, war correspondent in Mexico, dedicated socialist, and writer of enormous worldwide popularity, London dramatized his ideas about modern societies through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. The Iron Heel, an astonishing political fantasy, anticipates a United...
Author
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
This volume contains the entire text of Jack London's novel The Game in addition to 46 of his short stories. The Game tells the story of Jack Fleming who the eve of his wedding arranges a ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through her eyes, the reader watches the fight that pits Jack against John Ponta revealing as much about her own nature as it does about the force that drives the two men. Each short story paints...
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
THE YUKON "Gold Hunters of the North (1903)", "The Taste of the Meat (1911)", "In a Far Country (1899)", "To Build a Fire (1908)", "Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1917)", "The White Silence (1899)", "The Law of Life (1901)". ALASKA "Lost Face (1908)". THE CANADIAN BARRENS "Love of Life (1905)". CALIFORNIA "All Gold Canyon (1905)", "White and Yellow (1905)", "The Apostate (1906)", "Four Horses and a Sailor (1911)". UTAH "Mountain Meadows Massacre...
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