Jack London

The Mutiny of the Elsinore By Jack London

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

" veill une bonne heure plus t t que d'habitude, je demeurais les yeux grands ouverts, m ditant sur cette anomalie. Quelque chose, je ne sais quoi, devait aller de travers. Je pressentais qu'un v nement terrible se passait ou se pr parait: mais de quelle nature ? J'essayai de m'orienter. Je me souvenais que, lors du grand tremblement de terre de 1906, nombre de gens pr tendaient s' tre veill s quelques instants avant la premi re secousse et avoir prouv dans l'intervalle une crainte inexplicable. San Francisco allait-il subir un nouveau cataclysme ? Je restai allong une minute, engourdi dans l'attente, sans voir osciller ni crouler les murailles. Tout tait plong dans le silence et voil l'explication de mon tonnement. Il me manquait le brouhaha de la grande cit vivante. D'ordinaire, cette heure-l , les tramways se succ daient dans ma rue une moyenne de trois minutes: et au cours des dix minutes suivantes, pas un ne se fit entendre. J'en conclus que les employ s pouvaient tre en gr ve ou que le courant faisait d faut par suite d'un accident. Mais non Le silence tait trop profond: je n'entendais ni cahots, ni grincements de roues, ni pi tinements de sabots sur les pav s en pente..."

A collection of Jack London sea stories. CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN (Excerpt) ""If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots. Und you vood pe politeful, und say 'Yessir' und 'No sir.' But you pe in der American ship, and you t'ink you are so good as der able seamen. Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me? I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites."" ""But you are unfair, Emil!"" cried Chris Farrington, his sensitive face flushed and hurt. He was a slender though strongly built young fellow of seventeen, with Yankee ancestry writ large all over him...

Tales from the Klondike. ""The Faith of Men"" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. ""A Relic of the Pliocene"" concerns a ""homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced"" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. ""A Hyperborean Brew"" also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. ""In Batard,"" an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog. Other stories included are ""The Faith of Men,"" ""Too Much Gold,"" ""The One Thousand Dozen,"" ""The Marriage of Lit-Lit,"" ""Batard,"" and ""The Story of Jees Uck."" . About Jack London: Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books.

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 Son of the Wolf (excerpt) Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled by the sex feminine, so long as he bathes in it; but let it be withdrawn, and an ever-growing void begins to manifest itself in his existence, and he becomes hungry, in a vague sort of way, for a something so indefinite that he cannot characterize it. If his comrades have no more experience than himself, they will shake their heads dubiously and dose him with strong physic. But the hunger will continue and become stronger...

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness."" THE RED ONE (Excerpt) There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to analyse the tone-quality of that enormous peal that dominated the land far into the strong-holds of the surrounding tribes. The mountain gorge which was its source rang to the rising tide of it until it brimmed over and flooded earth and sky and air. With the wantonness of a sick man's fancy, he likened it to the mighty cry of some Titan of the Elder World vexed with misery or wrath. Higher and higher it arose, challenging and demanding in such profounds of volume that it seemed intended for ears beyond the narrow confines of the solar system...

En 1902 Jack London fue enviado como periodista a cubrir informativamente la guerra de los Boers. Al llegar a Gran Breta a su misi n fue cancelada, y l tom una habitaci n en un barrio obrero de Londres. Su curiosidad le llev a visitar los slums, barrios humildes londinenses donde se hacinaban millares de personas en condiciones terribles mientras las clases pudientes disfrutaban del expolio que el Imperio llevaba a cabo en sus colonias. All , London se conmovi ante la extrema pobreza, la proliferaci n de los sin-techo que dorm an en bancos y escaleras, los desempleados cr nicos, los enfermos sin asistencia digna de tal nombre, la m s absoluta miseria. London vivi all , y de esa terrible experiencia naci este texto, Gentes del abismo, nuevo periodismo avant la lettre, en donde no s lo se describe ese inframundo, sino tambi n su ensordecida protesta.

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush.