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Jack London
Full Series List in Order
Dogs of the Islands
1 - Jerry of the Islands (Jan-1917)2 - Michael, Brother of Jerry (Jan-1917)
Book List in Order: 167 titles
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The Cruise of the Dazzler
- 1902
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A Daughter of the Snows
- 1902
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The Call of the Wild
- 1903
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King of the Wild Buck's teeth clamp on his rival's throat like the jaws of a steel trap. It's a fight to the death. Stolen from his home, whipped and brutalized, Buck quickly learns the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the gold-craz...
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The Sea-Wolf
- 1904
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The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the c...
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White Fang
- 1906
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THE SAVAGERY OF THE WILD He was three quarters wolf and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, in the frozen arctic. Born in a world where the weak died without mercy, where only the swift, the strong, the cunning saw each dawn. It was White Fang's wor...
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The Iron Heel
- 1908
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Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it antici...
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Martin Eden
- 1909
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Jack London''s semiautobiographical critique of individualism that touches on contemporary issues like socialism and mental illness, now two major motion pictures―one directed by Pietro Marcello, the other by Jay Craven
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Burning Daylight
- 1910
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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Burning Daylight includes a table ...
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The Cruise of the Snark
- 1911
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Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian...
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The Scarlet Plague
- 1912
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An old man walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have...
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A Son of the Sun
- 1912
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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of A Son of the Sun includes a table ...
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The Abysmal Brute
- 1913
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Pat Glendon is a young man who has never drank alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He is a nature-lover with a phobia of cities and talking to women. He is also the perfect fighter. After prize-fighter manager Sam Stubener takes Pat under his wing, the two s...
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The Valley of the Moon
- 1913
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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 hims...
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The Strength Of the Strong
- Jan-1914
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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Strength of the Strong include...
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- 1914
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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Mutiny of the Elsinore include...
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The Star Rover
- 1915
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The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life - and long stretches in a straitjacket - by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman a...
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The Little Lady of the Big House
- 1916
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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 hims...
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Jerry of the Islands
- Jan-1917
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Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views. Written on the beach in Hawaii in 1917, Jerry ...
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Michael, Brother of Jerry
- Jan-1917
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This adventure story of a dog on a sea voyage is the sequel to Jerry of the Islands. Jack London wrote this book on his second trip to Hawaii in late 1915 "to bring to the public's attention the inevitable and eternal cruelty which is the...
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Hearts of Three
- 1920
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Two men exactly alike in appearance, hunting for a treasure in the South sea islands, start the complication in this scenario novel. Graphic, clear and thrilling in style and with much of the old charm....
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Stories Of Ships And the Sea
- Jan-1922
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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Stories of Ships and the Sea inclu...
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Stories of the North
- 1965
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In the cruel north, the law was either kill or be killed! Jack London was one of the most popular writers of his time. His stories tell of life in Alaska and the Yukon during the exciting days of the Gold Rush. Here are nine of his best. •In "To ...
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The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
- Jan-1978
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London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau -- an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Pengui...
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Fantastic Tales
- Oct-1998
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Jack London’s fabled powers to entertain and enthrall are in full force in this collection of fifteen fantastic tales. The restless energy of his vision ranges far in time and space, from the psychological tension of an extraterrestrial encounter t...
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The Mexican
- Feb-2024
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While he was living in El Paso, Texas, writer Jack London became interested in the war raging south of the border. He soon wrote “The Mexican,” a short story based on true events that appeared in a 1911 issue of the Saturday Evening Post....
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The Acorn-Planter
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Acorn-Planter includes a table...
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The Chinago And Other Stories
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The God Of His Fathers
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.On every hand stretched the forest primeval, â€" the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still ...
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The House of Mapuhi
Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a ...
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The Human Drift
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets Burn'd, Are all but stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd....
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The Kempton-Wace Letters
These letters embody the suppositious correspondence of a poet and a scientist. The letters of both are in a somewhat high-flown and impossible manner. Although the subjects treated, love and marriage, are scarcely new, the letters contain some keen ...
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Moon Face
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin...
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On the Makaloa Mat
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of On the Makaloa Mat includes a tabl...
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The Red One
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Red One includes a table of co...
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Revolution and Other Essays
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Road
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 hims...
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Smoke Bellew
"In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And in the end he was known by no other name than Smoke Bellew. And thi...
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The Son Of The Wolf
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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South Sea Tales
"Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral san...
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Theft - A Play In Four Acts
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Theft includes a table of contents...
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The Turtles of Tasman
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Turtles of Tasman includes a t...
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Uncollected Stories
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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War of the Classes
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from local papers interviewed me, and the interviews, when published, were pathological ...
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The "Francis Spaight"
The "Francis Spaight" is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning wo...
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The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen
The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-bur...
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An Adventure in the Upper Sea
An Adventure in the Upper Sea is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burge...
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All Gold Canyon
All Gold Canyon is a short story by Jack London. 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 c...
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Aloha OE
Aloha Oe is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commer...
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Amateur Night
Amateur Night is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of c...
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The Apostate
The Apostate is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of co...
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At the Rainbow's End
At the Rainbow's End is a short story by Jack London. 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...
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Bacillus: Classic Stories of the Microbial and Contagious
Bacteria and other microbial organisms, whether strange and new, or old and deadly, are the theme for this collection of thirteen short stories and one classic novel. Horror, crime, romance, science fiction ... a multitude of genres play host to t...
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Bald-Face
Bald-face is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of comme...
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The Banks of the Sacramento
The Banks of the Sacramento is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeon...
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Batard
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" 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 f...
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Before Adam
A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-T...
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The Benefit of the Doubt
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" 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 f...
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The Birth Mark
SCENE-One of the club rooms of the West Bay Athletic Club. Near centre front is a large table covered with newspapers and magazines. At left a punching-bag apparatus. At right, against wall, a desk, on which rests a desk-telephone. Door at rear towar...
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The Bones of Kahekili
The Bones of Kahekili is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning wo...
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Brown Wolf And Other Stories
She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and in an...
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Bulls
Bulls is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercia...
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Bunches of Knuckles
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" 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 f...
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By the Turtles of the Tasman
By the Turtles of the Tasman is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeo...
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Captain David Grief
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Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three st...
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Charley's Coup
Charley's Coup is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of ...
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Children of the Frost
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Children of the Frost includes a t...
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The Chinago
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Chris Farrington
Chris Farrington: Able Seaman is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burge...
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Chun Ah Chun
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" 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 f...
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Collected Short Stories of Jack London
One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of adventure vividly capture the struggle to survive against the forces of nature by both men and animals, and often their retreat to a primitive state in the ...
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A Collection of Stories
The Human Drift -- Small-Boat Sailing -- Four Horses and a Sailor -- Nothing that Ever Came to Anything -- That Dead Men Rise up Never -- A Classic of the Sea -- A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) -- The Birth Mark (Sketch)...
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Confession
Confession is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of comm...
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Created He Them
Created He Them is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of...
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The Curious Fragment
The Curious Fragment is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning wor...
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A Daughter of the Aurora
A Daughter of the Aurora is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning...
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A Day's Lodging
A Day's Lodging is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of...
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The Death of Ligoun
The Death of Ligoun is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning worl...
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Demetrios Contos
Demetrios Contos is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world o...
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The Dream of Debs
The Dream of Debs is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world ...
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Dutch Courage And Other Stories
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Dutch Courage and Other Stories in...
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The End of the Story
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" 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 f...
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The Enemy of All the World
The Enemy of All the World is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoni...
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The Eternity of Forms
The Eternity of Forms is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning wo...
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The Faith of Men
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Faith of Men includes a table ...
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Finis
Finis is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercia...
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The First Poet
The First Poet is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of ...
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Flush of Gold
Flush of Gold is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of c...
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A Flutter in Eggs
A Flutter in Eggs is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world ...
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Four Horses and a Sailor
Four Horses and a Sailor is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning...
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Good-Bye, Jack
Good-bye, Jack is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of ...
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The Great Interrogation
The Great Interrogation is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning ...
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Grit of Women
Grit of Women is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of c...
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The Hanging of Cultus George
The Hanging of Cultus George is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeo...
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The Heathen
The Heathen is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of com...
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The Hobo and the Fairy
The Hobo and the Fairy is a short story by Jack London. 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 wor...
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Hoboes That Pass in the Night
Hoboes that Pass in the Night is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burge...
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The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
The House of Pride Koolau the Leper Good-bye, Jack Aloha Oe Chun Ah Chun The Sheriff of Kona...
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The Hussy
There are some stories that have to be true - the sort that cannot be fabricated by a ready fiction-reckoner. And by the same token there are some men with stories to tell who cannot be doubted. Such a man was Julian Jones. Although I doubt if the av...
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In a Far Country
When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he mu...
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In the Forests of the North
The Barrens-well, they are the Barrens, the bad lands of the Arctic, the deserts of the Circle, the bleak and bitter home of the musk-ox and the lean plains wolf. So Avery Van Brunt found them, treeless and cheerless, sparsely clothed with moss and l...
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The Inevitable White Man
"The black will never understand the white, nor the white the black, as long as black is black and white is white." So said Captain Woodward. We sat in the parlor of Charley Roberts' pub in Apia, drinking long Abu Hameds compounded and shared with us...
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Jack London On The Road
Jack joined Kelly's Industrial Army at Oakland, CA in 1894 and headed for Washington, D.C.; he wrote of his experiences on the road. He reccorded his thinking while America was changing dramatically as it headed into the 20th Century. As the Army ent...
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Jack London: Novels and Stories
This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his ...
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Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters: Nine South Seas Stories by America's Master of Adventure
A ship's captain, his vessel ready to explode from a fire within its cargo hold, desperately searches for a way to save his crew. A missionary in Fiji is clubbed to death by a cannibal chief to satisfy a debt of honor. A scientist agrees to have h...
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The Jacket aka The Star-Rover
Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views. He is best known for his novels The Call of th...
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John Barleycorn: or, Alcoholic Memoirs
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed ame...
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Just Meat
He strolled to the corner and glanced up and down the intersecting street, but saw nothing save the oases of light shed by the street lamps at the successive crossings. Then he strolled back the way he had come. He was a shadow of a man, sliding nois...
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Just So Stories
IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. 'Member it wasn't the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the 'sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand an...
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The Kanaka Surf
The tourist women, under the hau tree arbour that lines the Moana hotel beach, gasped when Lee Barton and his wife Ida emerged from the bath-house. And as the pair walked past them and down to the sand, they continued to gasp. Not that there was anyt...
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Keesh, the Son of Keesh
"Thus will I give six blankets, warm and double; six files, large and hard; six Hudson Bay knives, keen-edged and long; two canoes, the work of Mogum, The Maker of Things; ten dogs, heavy-shouldered and strong in the harness; and three guns-the trigg...
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The King of Mazy May
The King of Mazy May is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 â€" November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning wor...
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The King of the Greeks
Big Alec had never been captured by the fish patrol. It was his boast that no man could take him alive, and it was his history that of the many men who had tried to take him dead none had succeeded. It was also history that at least two patrolmen who...
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Klondike Tales
Jack London became an instant celebrity in America from his first appearance on the literary scene. Born in San Francisco in 1876, he spent his adult life dedicated to the new genre of commercial magazine fiction, which reached audiences all over the...
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Koolau the Leper
"Because we are sick they take away our liberty. We have obeyed the law. We have done no wrong. And yet they would put us in prison. Molokai is a prison. That you know. Niuli, there, his sister was sent to Molokai seven years ago. He has not seen her...
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Li WAN, the Fair
So called Li Wan to the man whose head was hidden beneath the squirrel-skin robe, but she called softly, as though divided between the duty of waking him and the fear of him awake. For she was afraid of this big husband of hers, who was like unto non...
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Like Argus of the Ancient Times
It was the summer of 1897, and there was trouble in the Tarwater family. Grandfather Tarwater, after remaining properly subdued and crushed for a quiet decade, had broken out again. This time it was the Klondike fever. His first and one unvarying sym...
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The Lodger
But appearances were not only deceitful, they were more than usually deceitful with regard to these unfortunate people. In spite of their good furniture -- that substantial outward sign of respectability which is the last thing which wise folk who fa...
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London: Novels and Social Writings
By turns an impoverished laborer, a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent in Mexico, a declared socialist, and a writer of enormous popularity the world over, Jack London was the author of brilliant works that reflect his ideas about twentieth-cen...
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Love of Life and Other Stories
Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views. He is best known for his novels The Call of th...
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The Man with the Gash
One afternoon in April he sat by his door, -for all the world like a predatory spider, -marvelling at the heat of the returning sun, and keeping an eye on the trail for prospective flies. The Yukon lay at his feet, a sea of ice, disappearing around t...
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The Marriage of Lit-Lit
When John Fox came into a country where whisky freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year, he came without the ideals and illusions that usually hamper the progress of more delicately nurtured adventurers. Born and r...
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The Minions of Midas
Wade Atsheler is dead-dead by his own hand. To say that this was entirely unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth; and yet never once had we, his intimates, ever canvassed the idea. Rather had we been prepared for i...
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Moon-Face & Other Stories
The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh,...
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Negore the Coward
He had followed the trail of his fleeing people for eleven days, and his pursuit had been in itself a flight; for behind him he knew full well were the dreaded Russians, toiling through the swampy lowlands and over the steep divides, bent on no less ...
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The Night-Born
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of The Night-Born includes a table of...
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Northland Stories
Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figure...
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The One Thousand Dozen
David Rasmunsen was a hustler, and, like many a greater man, a man of the one idea. Wherefore, when the clarion call of the North rang on his ear, he conceived an adventure in eggs and bent all his energy to its achievement. He figured briefly and to...
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The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
"It is the judgment of this court that you vamose the camp . . . in the customary way, sir, in the customary way." Judge Marcus O'Brien was absent-minded, and Mucluc Charley nudged him in the ribs. Marcus O'Brien cleared his throat and went on- "Weig...
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The People of the Abyss
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful...
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The Portable Jack London
Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-fam...
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A Raid on the Oyster Pirates
Of the fish patrolmen under whom we served at various times, Charley Le Grant and I were agreed, I think, that Neil Partington was the best. He was neither dishonest nor cowardly; and while he demanded strict obedience when we were under his orders,...
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Sailing Ships and Other Adventures
This book is a collection of Jack London's short stories about his experiences sailing and seal hunting in the Pacific Ocean during the late 1800s. An additional adventure looks at life along the Sacramento River. The five showcased stories are adapt...
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The Scorn of Women
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 fi...
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The Seed of McCoy
The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, ...
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The Shadow and the Flash
When I look back, I realize what a peculiar friendship it was. First, there was Lloyd Inwood, tall, slender, and finely knit, nervous and dark. And then Paul Tichlorne, tall, slender, and finely knit, nervous and blond. Each was the replica of the ot...
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The Sickness of Lone Chief
This is a tale that was told to me by two old men. We sat in the smoke of a mosquito-smudge, in the cool of the day, which was midnight; and ever and anon, throughout the telling, we smote lustily and with purpose at such of the winged pests as brave...
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The Siege of the Lancashire Queen
Possibly our most exasperating experience on the fish patrol was when Charley Le Grant and I laid a two weeks' siege to a big four-masted English ship. Before we had finished with the affair, it became a pretty mathematical problem, and it was by the...
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The Story of Jees Uck
There have been renunciations and renunciations. But, in its essence, renunciation is ever the same. And the paradox of it is, that men and women forego the dearest thing in the world for something dearer. It was never otherwise. Thus it was when Abe...
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The Sun-Dog Trail
We had struck this deserted cabin after a hard day on trail. The dogs had been fed, the supper dishes washed, the beds made, and we were now enjoying that most delicious hour that comes each day, and but once each day, on the Alaskan trail, the hour ...
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century. London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one of the most read authors today. This edition of Tales of the Fish Patrol includes ...
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Tales of the Klondike
Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financi...
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Tales of the Pacific
If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues....
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The Tears of Ah Kim
There was a great noise and racket, but no scandal, in Honolulu's Chinatown. Those within hearing distance merely shrugged their shoulders and smiled tolerantly at the disturbance as an affair of accustomed usualness. "What is it?" asked Chin Mo, dow...
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The Terrible Solomons
It is true that fever and dysentery are perpetually on the walk-about, that loathsome skin diseases abound, that the air is saturated with a poison that bites into every pore, cut, or abrasion and plants malignant ulcers, and that many strong men who...
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That Spot
Then, too, the message seemed so near that, instead of pulling the trigger quick, I stopped to see if I could catch the message. There it was, right before me, glimmering all around in those eyes of his. And then it was too late. I got scared. I was ...
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A Thousand Deaths
Jack London's first short story features the story's protagonist being repeatedly killed and resurrected by his mad scientist father. This version features pictures and illustrations throughout the story....
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To Build a Fire
To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most famous short stories. This edition also includes more London short stories, such as Lost Face, Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, and The Wit of Porportuk.Heraklion Press has i...
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
"To Build a Fire and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of Jack London's most loved short stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: To The Man On The Trail, The White Silence, In A Far Country, The Wisdom Of...
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To Kill a Man
THOUGH dim night-lights burned, she moved familiarly through the big rooms and wide halls, seeking vainly the half-finished book of verse she had mislaid and only now remembered. When she turned on the lights in the drawing-room, she disclosed hersel...
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Told in the Drooling Ward
Me? I'm not a drooler. I'm the assistant, I don't know what Miss Jones or Miss Kelsey could do without me. There are fifty-five low-grade droolers in this ward, and how could they ever all be fed if I wasn't around? I like to feed droolers. They don'...
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Trust
All lines had been cast off, and the Seattle No. 4 was pulling slowly out from the shore. Her decks were piled high with freight and baggage, and swarmed with a heterogeneous company of Indians, dogs, and dog-mushers, prospectors, traders, and homewa...
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The Unexpected
On the other hand, there are those that make toward survival, the fit individuals who escape from the rule of the obvious and the expected and adjust their lives to no matter what strange grooves they may stray into, or into which they may be forced....
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The Unparalleled Invasion
Having decisively thrashed the great Russian Empire, Japan promptly set about dreaming a colossal dream of empire for herself. Korea she had made into a granary and a colony; treaty privileges and vulpine diplomacy gave her the monopoly of Manchuria....
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When God Laughs
A collection of Jack London stories, including When God Laughs, The Apostate, A Wicked Woman, "Just Meat", Created He Them, The Chinago, Make Westing, Semper Idem, A Nose for the King, The "Francis Spaight", A Curious Fragment, and A Piece of Steak.....
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White and Yellow
San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain all manner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of all mann...
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The White Man's Way
"To cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt. Zilla was his wif...
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The Wife of a King
Once when the northland was very young, the social and civic virtues were remarkably alike for their paucity and their simplicity. When the burden of domestic duties grew grievous, and the fireside mood expanded to a constant protest against its blea...
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The Wit of Porportuk
El-Soo had been a Mission girl. Her mother had died when she was very small, and Sister Alberta had plucked El-Soo as a brand from the burning, one summer day, and carried her away to Holy Cross Mission and dedicated her to God. El-Soo was a full-blo...
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Yah! Yah! Yah!
He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept...
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The Master of Mystery
When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...
