Jack London

Disillusioned by the urban labor strikes of early 20th-century Oakland, California, Billy and Saxon Roberts flee the city to begin anew as ranchers in the idyllic Sonoma Valley. Their journey back to the land provides the backdrop for the novel's exploration of a classic American theme--the promise of wide-open spaces--and echoes Jack London's own journey as a rancher in the Sonoma Valley. The Valley of the Moon is a love story. A road novel. A study of American independence.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. The book is unusual among London's writings (and in the literature of the time in general) in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. Much of the narrative is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, including events in San Francisco and Sonoma County. The novel is based on the (fictional) "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith. Meredith writes from around 2600 AD or 419 B. O. M. (the Brotherhood of Man). Jack London writes at two levels, often having Meredith condescendingly correcting the errors of Everhard yet, at the same time, exposing the often incomplete understanding of this distant future perspective. Meredith's introduction also acts as a deliberate "spoiler" (the term did not yet exist at the time of writing). Before ever getting a chance to get to know Avis and Ernest, how they fell in love or how Avis became politically involved, the reader is already told that all their struggles and hopes would end in total failure and repression, and that both of them would be summarily executed. This gives all that follows the air of a foreordained tragedy. There is still left the consolation that a happy end would come for humanity as a whole - though hundreds of years too late for Avis and Ernest as individuals; the cruel oligarchy would fall, and the two will be vindicated and respected by posterity as pioneers and martyrs. The Manuscript itself covers the years 1912 through 1932 in which the Oligarchy (or "Iron Heel") arose in the United States. In Asia, Japan conquered East Asia and created its own empire, India gained independence, and Europe became socialist. Canada, Mexico, and Cuba formed their own Oligarchies and were aligned with the U. S. (London remains silent as to the fates of South America, Africa, and the Middle East.) In North America, the Oligarchy maintains power for three centuries until the Revolution succeeds and ushers in the Brotherhood of Man. During the years of the novel, the First Revolt is described and preparations for the Second Revolt are discussed. From the perspective of Everhard, the imminent Second Revolt is sure to succeed but, from the distant future perspective of Meredith, we readers realize that Everhard's hopes were to be crushed for centuries to come. The Oligarchy are the largest monopoly trusts (or robber barons) who manage to squeeze out the middle class by bankrupting most small to mid-sized business as well as reducing all farmers to effective serfdom. This Oligarchy maintains power through a "labor caste" and the Mercenaries. Labor in essential industries like steel and rail are elevated and given decent wages, housing, and education. Indeed, the tragic turn in the novel (and Jack London's core warning to his contemporaries) is the treachery of these favored unions which break with the other unions and side with the Oligarchy. Further, a second, military caste is formed: the Mercenaries. The Mercenaries are officially the army of the US but are in fact in the employ of the Oligarchs.

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

Jack London berichtet ber seine Zeit als Tramp nach der Wirtschaftskrise gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Man lernt die Gefahren und Strapazen des Lebens als Landstreicher kennen. Von zentraler Bedeutung ist dabei das Reisen als Hobo per Bahn auf einer Blindplattform oder unter dem Zug. Der Autor geht aber auch auf "General" Kellys Armee und auf einen Gef ngnisaufenthalt ein.

Gro druck Es l t sich nicht leugnen, da die Salomoninseln eine unzug ngliche Inselgruppe sind. Anderseits gibt es noch schlimmere Stellen auf der Welt. Aber dem Neuling, der keinerlei angeborenes Verst ndnis f r Menschen und das Leben im Urzustand hat, m gen die Salomoninseln in der Tat furchtbar erscheinen. Es ist wahr, da Fieber und Ruhr st ndig dort umgehen, da berflu an ekelhaften Hautkrankheiten herrscht, da die Luft von einem Gifte ges ttigt ist, das sich in jede Pore, jede Schnittwunde, jeden Hautri einfri t und b sartige Geschw re verursacht, und da viele starke M nner, selbst wenn sie dem Tode dort entgangen sind, als Invaliden in die Heimat zur ckkehren. Es ist ferner wahr, da die Eingeborenen der Salomoninseln eine wilde Horde mit herzhaftem Appetit auf Menschenfleisch und einer Liebhaberei f r das Sammeln von Menschenk pfen sind. Ihr leidenschaftlichster Sport ist es, einen Menschen von hinten zu fangen und ihm durch einen geschickten Streich mit dem Tomahawk die Wirbels ule vom Gehirn zu trennen. Weitere Klassiker unter: www.buch-klassiker.de

El punto de partida no puede ser m s desolador: la ignorancia acunada en la pobreza, enquistada en ella. Es ah , donde un marinero hasta entonces embrutecido (Mart n), un d a, eclipsado por una mujer de clase social superior de la que se enamora, percibe que hay algo m s.

Carmen h lt keine zwei Tage mehr aus. Mason spie einen Klumpen Eis aus und betrachtete besorgt das arme Tier, dann nahm er die Pfote der H ndin in den Mund und begann das Eis loszubei en, das zwischen ihren Zehen sa und sie grausam qu lte. Ich hab' auch noch nie einen Hund mit einem so hochtrabenden Namen gesehen, der etwas taugte, sagte er, spie das letzte Eisst ck aus und schob den Hund fort. Die schwinden einem direkt unter den Fingern weg. Habt ihr je gesehen, da ein Hund mit einem ordentlichen Namen wie Cassiar, Siwash oder Husky zu Schaden gekommen w re? Seht nur Shookum, das ist - Haps Die magere Bestie fuhr hoch und h tte Mason um ein Haar an der Kehle gepackt. www.buch-klassiker.de

Es l t sich nicht leugnen, da die Salomoninseln eine unzug ngliche Inselgruppe sind. Anderseits gibt es noch schlimmere Stellen auf der Welt. Aber dem Neuling, der keinerlei angeborenes Verst ndnis f r Menschen und das Leben im Urzustand hat, m gen die Salomoninseln in der Tat furchtbar erscheinen. Es ist wahr, da Fieber und Ruhr st ndig dort umgehen, da berflu an ekelhaften Hautkrankheiten herrscht, da die Luft von einem Gifte ges ttigt ist, das sich in jede Pore, jede Schnittwunde, jeden Hautri einfri t und b sartige Geschw re verursacht, und da viele starke M nner, selbst wenn sie dem Tode dort entgangen sind, als Invaliden in die Heimat zur ckkehren. Es ist ferner wahr, da die Eingeborenen der Salomoninseln eine wilde Horde mit herzhaftem Appetit auf Menschenfleisch und einer Liebhaberei f r das Sammeln von Menschenk pfen sind. Ihr leidenschaftlichster Sport ist es, einen Menschen von hinten zu fangen und ihm durch einen geschickten Streich mit dem Tomahawk die Wirbels ule vom Gehirn zu trennen. Weitere Klassiker unter: www.buch-klassiker.de

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Gro druck Carmen h lt keine zwei Tage mehr aus. Mason spie einen Klumpen Eis aus und betrachtete besorgt das arme Tier, dann nahm er die Pfote der H ndin in den Mund und begann das Eis loszubei en, das zwischen ihren Zehen sa und sie grausam qu lte. Ich hab' auch noch nie einen Hund mit einem so hochtrabenden Namen gesehen, der etwas taugte, sagte er, spie das letzte Eisst ck aus und schob den Hund fort. Die schwinden einem direkt unter den Fingern weg. Habt ihr je gesehen, da ein Hund mit einem ordentlichen Namen wie Cassiar, Siwash oder Husky zu Schaden gekommen w re? Seht nur Shookum, das ist - Haps Die magere Bestie fuhr hoch und h tte Mason um ein Haar an der Kehle gepackt. www.buch-klassiker.de