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1) Martin Eden
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"Martin Eden" is Jack London's classic and tragic tale of its title character. Martin is in love with Ruth Morse, however as a common sailor from a working-class background, he feels that he is not good enough to win the hand of Ruth, who comes from a bourgeois family. Martin seeks to educate himself as a writer and lift up his status so that he may one day have his true love. Rich with the social theme of class struggle, "Martin Eden" is one of Jack...
2) The road
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The Road is a series of tales and reminiscences of Jack London's hobo days. It relates the tricks that hoboes used to evade train crews, and reminisces about his travels with Kelly's Army. He credits his story-telling skill to the hobo's necessity of concocting tales to coax meals from sympathetic strangers.
3) Smoke Bellew
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A sweeping adventure saga in the tradition of White Fang and The Call of the Wild, bringing to vivid life the cold, bleak, unforgiving Alaskan wilderness and the colorful, desperately uncertain lives of both natives and intruders. On a lark, the novel's hero, Christopher Bellew, a San Francisco newspaperman and dandy, sets off on what he believes will be a brief trek into the Klondike to cover the latest gold rush. The lark turns into a rough, raw...
4) The Game
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Best known as the author of works such as White Fang and Call of the Wild, Jack London was a prolific author, journalist, and chronicler of the great outdoors. The novel The Game centers around another of London's passions: the intoxicating brutality and daring athleticism of the sport of boxing.
5) The Red One
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Savage cannibal head-hunters, a disease infested jungle, and the legacy of ancient astronauts. From start to finish this science fiction action adventure never lets up. One of Jack London's last and best.
This audiobook is great for teens, and jungle adventure or science fiction fans.
CONTENTS: What was that amazing otherworldly sound? Bassett, a specimen hunting naturalist, is overwhelmed and obsessed with finding its source. Into the jungle
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Set against the natural beauty of south sea islands and alive with the hazards of headhunters, sharks, storms and disease, these 8 powerful short stories include "Mauki," which tells of a young Melanesian sold into slavery; as well as "The Terrible Solomons," "The House of Mapuhi," "The Whale Tooth," "Yah! Yah! Yah!," "The Heathen," "The Inevitable White Man," and "The Seed of McCoy." Pure entertainment for lovers of adventure tales and Jack London...
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Originally published in 1912, this early work by American author and social activist Jack London is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of beautifully written short stories and is a highly recommended addition to the bookshelf of any fans of fiction.
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John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and 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...
10) The Iron Heel
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The Iron Heel treads upon the faces of the poor. Determined to crush the working class at any cost, the brutal dictatorship incites a paranoid atmosphere of witch-hunting hysteria, employing gangs of thugs to stifle free speech. Avis Everhard, wife of a labor leader, narrates this gripping novel. In moving terms, she reveals the wretched poverty that props up aristocratic wealth and recounts the desperate struggles of revolutionaries against the insidious...
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This antiquarian book contains an account of Jack London's time spent in the underworld of London in the late nineteenth-century. This thought-provoking and insightful account of life in London's underbelly highlights the chronic starvation and lack of shelter causing so much misery for so many city-dwellers. This text is recommended for those with an interest in nineteenth-century English life, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of...
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Jack London (1876-1916) was born in squalor and rose to become one of the most recognized names in American literature. His 1913 novel, "The Valley of the Moon", chronicles the journey of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon, who leave Oakland, CA in the midst of labor strife to search for suitable farmland farther north. They find what they're looking for in the Valley of the Moon, a Native American name for the Sonoma Valley, where Jack London...
13) The Night-Born
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. "The Night Born" is a collection of his best short stories, also included here are the following stories:...
15) Burning Daylight
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Jack London's fantastic tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism.
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A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the...
17) Adventure
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Though novelist Jack London is best known for the paean to natural wonder that is The Call of the Wild, he had an activist side, as well. In Adventure, London describes and skewers the plantation system of The Solomon Islands in a devastating take-down that is equal parts adventure tale and social justice tract. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to...