Jack London

The history of civilisation is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food. In the misty younger world we catch glimpses of phantom races, rising, slaying, finding food, building rude civilisations, decaying, falling under the swords of stronger hands, and passing utterly away. Man, like any other animal, has roved over the earth seeking what he might devour; and not romance and adventure, but the hunger-need, has urged him on his vast adventures. Whether a bankrupt gentleman sailing to colonise Virginia or a lean Cantonese contracting to labour on the sugar plantations of Hawaii, in each case, gentleman and coolie, it is a desperate attempt to get something to eat, to get more to eat than he can get at home.

The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities. The nautical activities on board a sailing boat are authentically described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats enduring stormy weather at sea.

Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francisco ferry his is aboard collides with another ship in the fog. Adrift in the bay, Humphrey is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutish captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the "Ghost". However his relief in being saved is short-lived, for he is soon put to work, essentially enslaved as a cabin boy forced to do menial work aboard the "Ghost" by Larsen. Humphrey finds that he must quickly adapt to the harsh environment of the vessel and over the course of the novel becomes toughened up by the strenuous work aboard the ship and in defending himself against other brutal members of the crew. Reportedly based on the real life sailor Captain Alexander MacLean, it is the characterization of Wolf Larsen that is the standout of the novel. A primitive, animalistic force, Captain Larsen is depicted as a perfect specimen of masculinity, a man with no moral compass, who values only his own survival and pleasure. "The Sea Wolf" is a thrilling tale of maritime adventure which stands as one of London's finest literary achievements. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Lewis Gannett.

V klassicheskom prikljuchencheskom romane amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona respektabelnye passazhiry na "Elsinore" okazalis vo vlasti vosstavshikh morjakov i vynuzhdeny podchinjatsja strannoj komande. Vse chleny ekipazha - sumasshedshie, pjanitsy ili kaleki, no sredi nikh est krasavitsa doch kapitana.

A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic science fiction work written by Jack London and published as a book in 1915. Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death was the inspiration for London to write this novella. The Scarlet Plague takes place sixty years after an unstoppable epidemic that has depopulated the planet. The disease is known as red death, but is also referred to as scarlet plague or scarlet death. All happened in 2013, when a terrible disease came about, killing the victims within 30 minutes of first seeing symptoms. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors in the San Francisco area. He travels with his two grandsons, who ask him to talk about the event that changed the world's history. Smith, who was an English professor and the one witnessing the plague's first victim, recounts the story of his life before the plague and during the terrible days when the epidemic was spreading around the world rapidly.

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian.

In the morning of the world, while his tribe makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty of life, which duty is to make life more abundant. The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who commands in war, sings that war is the only way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming that the way of life is the way of the acorn- planter, and that whoso slays one man slays the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins the Shaman and the people to his contention.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild. Much of White Fang is written from the viewpoint of the titular canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption.

"Martin Iden" - samyj izvestnyj roman Dzheka Londona, vpervye napechatannyj v 1908-1909 gg. Vo mnogom avtobiograficheskaja kniga o cheloveke, kotoryj "sdelal sebja sam", vybravshis iz samykh nizov, dobilsja priznanija. Ljubov k devushke iz vysshego obschestva pobuzhdaet geroja zanjatsja samoobrazovaniem. On stanovitsja pisatelem, no vse izdatelstva otkazyvajut emu v publikatsii. I kak eto chasto byvaet v zhizni, projdja skvoz lishenija i unizhenija, poluchiv otkaz ot ljubimoj devushki, on nakonets stanovitsja znamenitym. No ni slava, ni dengi, ni uspekh, ni dazhe vozvraschenie ego vozljublennoj ne mogut uberech Martina ot razocharovanija v etoj naskvoz falshivoj zhizni.

Jack London (1876-1916) var en av det 20. århundrets store fortellere. Han oppnådde internasjonal berømmelse for sin skrivekunst og publiserte en rekke romaner og noveller. Han søkte lykken i Klondyke og på veiene som landstryker, han var krigskorrespondent og deltok på store seilerekspedisjoner. Hans sosiale engasjement og ikke minst hans kjærlighet til naturen har brakt ham lesere over hele verden og i alle aldre. I denne boken har vi samlet hans to mest kjente fortellinger. «Landstrykerliv» er en selvbiografisk beretning om det harde livet på veien og om et Amerika i endring, et samfunn der kun den sterkeste overlever. «Når villdyret våkner» er en litterær klassiker, Londons mest leste bok, som handler om blandingshunden Buck og beskriver de ekstreme forholdene under gullrushet i Klondyke mot slutten av 1800-tallet.

"Jack Londons bedste historier" er et udvalg af 17 af forfatterens historier om livet i Amerika i en en tid, hvor der endnu fandtes gte cowboys, hensynsl se lykkej gere og pistolslyngende sheriffer. "Eet slag ramte kusken i hovedet, et andet strejfede hans skulder. For ham var spillet tydeligvis ude. Han fo'r pludselig frem, greb to af betjentene i sine arme og rev dem med dig ud over siden p vognen og tumlede om p gaden uden at give slip p sine to fangevogtere. Catherine Van Vorst f lte sig syg og svimmel ved synet af blodet og det brutale slgasm l. Men hendes kvalme forsvandt brat ved den sensationelle og h jst uventede begivenhed, der fulgte umiddelbart efter..."

Written in 1906, "Before Adam" is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventure novel, this one revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the sea and achieve our first adventure on land."

Moon-Face, and Other Stories By Jack London

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.

The great transmigration novel inspired by the experiences of an ex-prisoner's acount of coping with "the Jacket," a form of torture at San Quentin. London was a lifelong supporter of humane prison practices.