Tulák po hviezdach
Tulák po hviezdach patrí k Londonovým najpoetickejším prózam, hoci prostredie, v ktorom sa odohráva, tomu nenasvedčuje. Univerzitnému profesorovi Darrellovi Standingovi zmenia doživotný trest na trest smrti. Tú vo veľmi zvláštnych obmenách zažíva dávno pred popravou. Vedenie väznice ho na celé dni zväzuje do zvieracej kazajky a v stavoch blízko smrti jeho myseľ prekonáva hrubé múry a nachádza slobodu. Putuje nielen po hviezdach, ale aj po svojich minulých životoch.
Darrell Standing žil už v dobe kamennej, prežil mnoho životov, bol lovcom, lukostrelcom, zažil sťahovanie národov, začiatky poľnohospodárstva, krotenia divých koní. Žil celé veky, miloval a nenávidel, a to sa mu zakaždým stalo nejakým spôsobom osudným.
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The Night-Born
A varied collection including "War," "The Mexican," and "To Kill a Man."
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A Son of the Sun
A Son of the Sun was written in the year 1912 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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When God Laughs & Other Stories
This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago."
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Children of the Frost
Children of the Frost was written in the year 1920 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Jerry of the Islands
Jerry is a dog whose experiences reflect the cruelty and racism of colonial Melanesia.
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Martin Eden
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer.This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' returning it automatically with a rejection slip.While some readers believe there is some resemblance between them, an important difference between Jack London and Martin Eden is that Martin Eden rejects socialism (attacking it as 'slave morality'), and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, Jack London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it."
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South Sea Tales
Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans."
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Tengeri farkas
Wolf ?Larsen, a Tengerek Farkasa nem az a kapitány, aki bárki kedvéért kitérőt tesz. A hajótörött Van Weyden úrnak rá kell döbbennie, hogy a jog és a törvény túl messze van a Kísértet fókavadász-hajó fedélzetétől. Az ősidőkbe csöppent vissza. Itt egyetlen valóság az állati erő és indulat, a bosszúvágy, rettegés és gyilkos düh fojtogató, elmét homályosító atmoszférája, egy férfi a valóság… a legerősebb ragadozó… a FÉRFI maga, ahogy az Isten, vagy inkább az Ördög megteremtette: Wolf Larsen!…
Wolf Larsen a zsarnok, a gyűlölet gerjesztője és célpontja, a tökéletes, minden pillanatban gyilkolni kész, erkölcsi gátlások nélküli hím: maga a fenyegetés. Miközben az erőszaktól iszonyodó Van Weyden úr rettenetes megpróbáltatások, kemény munka és megaláztatások során végigszenvedi az élet-halál harcot, amelyet Wolf Larsen a hajója legénységével folytat, s amelybe végül is a sors szól bele drámai módon, nem tudja már nem csodálni ezt a hatalmas mefisztói szellemet és fizikai erőt, a természet kérlelhetetlen erejét, amelyet a kiismerhetetlen, félelmetes… és ugyanakkor csodálatos Larsen testesít meg. S ahogy az egykori puhány Van Weyden úr Larsen iszonyú iskoláján férfivá érik, ahogy pont itt találja meg élete párját, ahogy vérben és szenvedésben újjászüli önmagát és rájön, milyen érzés az, hogy nem ajándék többé az élete, hiszen naponta kell megküzdenie érte – úgy ragadja majd magával Önt is, Kedves Olvasó, Wolf Larsen… azaz Jack London lebírhatatlan életerejének kisugárzása: a végső megmérettetés, a küzdelem vállalásának felemelő érzése.
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The Faith of Men & Other Stories
The Faith of Men & Other Stories was written in the year 1904 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Iron Heel
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 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
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The Road
The Road was written in the year 1907 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Son of the Wolf
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.
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Adventure
Located in the Solomon Islands, this devastating portrayal of copra plantation slavery has scholars arguing whether London was criticizing the racism of the colonialists or approving of it. (From http://london.sonoma.edu/)
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The Game
On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.
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Abenteurer des Schienenstranges
Jack London berichtet über 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 Gefängnisaufenthalt ein.
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