Books by Jack London

«John Barleycorn», paru en France sous le titre «Le Cabaret de la dernière chance», est une autobiographie romancée. Ces souvenirs alcooliques étaient destinés à appuyer les partisans de la prohibition. A la parution en feuilleton dans le Saturday Evening Post, tous les antialcooliques s'en servent comme d'un étendard. Ni autobiographie, ni mémoires, ni récit, mais tout à la fois, le narrateur nous conte comment, tout au long de sa vie, une sorte de double l¿accompagna en permanence: John Barleycorn, qui ,en Amérique, est la personnification de l¿alcool. Pourquoi boiton, comment, dans quelles circonstances. Faits et geste du whisky, méfaits et geste de l¿alcoolique. «Dehors, nous brisions les goulots contre la bordure des trottoirs, et nous buvions.» Comment faire pour arrêter. Estil possible de seulement y penser? «Tous les chemins que je suivais étaient détrempés d¿alcool.»

Dans ces nouvelles, l'auteur, égal à luimême dans son style, nous relate des situations comiques ou périlleuses dans des domaines divers, tels que l'aventure, l'alpinisme, l'ascension en ballon, l'orpaillage, etc., mettant en lumière les valeurs humaines de ses personnages. Et en conclusion de chacune, comme l'indique le titre: Fautil en rire ou en pleurer?

Durant l'été 1902, Jack London va descendre dans les bas fonds de Londres (l'EastEnd). Se fondant dans la population, il va côtoyer les sans logis et les travailleurs pauvres. Au travers de son récit, nous allons découvrir toute l'horreur de la misère, les bastons, l'alcoolisme, le froid, les passages à tabac, l'errance. L'évocation est brutale, terrible à bien des égards et visionnaire en ce qu'il perçoit déjà comment ceci va se terminer. London raconte l'exclusion cent ans avant les historiens. C'est un travail d'enquête qui ferait rougir tous les journalistes bien pensants d'aujourd'hui.

Voici ce que disait l'auteur de ce roman: « Je tiens un splendide sujet de roman. Je viens de passer trois jours à prendre des notes pour être sûr de bien le cerner. À présent, je l¿ai bien en main. Seulement trois personnages ¿ un trio exceptionnel dans une situation exceptionnelle. Chacun des trois est sympathique, chacun des trois a du caractère. Ce sera un livre gagnant à tous les coups. Il est entièrement dominé par le sexe, du début à la fin ¿ sans qüaucune aventure sexuelle soit en fait accomplie ou à un million de kilomètres de l¿être. Oh, mes trois personnages ne sont ni pleurnichards ni moralistes. Ils sont cultivés, modernes et en même temps profondément primitifs. Et quand l¿histoire sera finie, le lecteur tirera son chapeau à chacun des trois: « Bon Dieu ! C¿est un homme » ou « Bon Dieu ! C¿était une femme ! » À mesure que j¿avance dans ce roman, je suis de plus en plus porté à croire que c¿est l¿aboutissement de toute notre vie d¿écrivain que j¿ai là entre les mains. Si l¿on excepte mon punch habituel qüon retrouve du début à la fin, on ne croira pas que c¿est moi qui l¿ai écrit, tellement c¿est si nouveau et différent de tout ce que j¿ai fait jusqüici. » Vous l'aurez compris, ce roman, en rupture complète avec les thématiques habituelles de l'auteur, était très important pour lui, et il l'est également pour tous ceux qui apprécient Jack London.

The Little Match and Other Writings has writings from authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe,Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Susan Glaspell, Willa Cather, Shirley Jackson, Langston Hughes, Jesse Stuart, Frank Stockton & .Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.The Book Contains Below Stories;The Little Match Girl; To Build a Fire; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; A Dark Brown Dog; The Monkey's Paw; The Cask of Amontillado; Eve's Diary; The Story of An Hour; The Luck of Roaring Camp; Regret; The Skylight Room; A Horseman in the Sky; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; The Minister's Black Veil; The Cactus; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; Scarlet Stockings; An Angel in Disguise; The Purloined Letter; A Jury of Her Peers; On the Gull's Road; The Lottery; Thank You, M'am; The Split Cherry Tree; The Cat; The Lady, or the Tiger? & The Night Came Slowly.

Jack London published a collection of short stories titled ""Dutch Courage And Other Stories"" in 1924. Fans and collectors of London's wonderful work shouldn't miss this collection, which will appeal to anyone who enjoys the short tale format. John Griffith London, better known by his pen name Jack London, was an American journalist, novelist, and social crusader who lived from 1876 to 1916. The book contains ten stories. Typhoon Off The Coast Of Japan Sailing-master remembers Sophie Sutherland's arrival in 1893 off the coast of Japan, close to Cape Jerimo. To get into position, the team had to pull three pairs of oars. The Lost Poacher Unknowingly, Mary Thomas had crossed the line. The men's looks were sombre because they knew too well what had happened to other seal-hunting poachers. The Banks Of The Sacramento Jerry Spillane, a young man, was singing an old chantey as he sat on a cabin step and watched the Sacramento River. Out of the pine trees, a tall, blue-shirted man wearing a rifle shirt asked him about his father. Other stories include Dutch CourageChris Farrington: Able Seaman To Repel BoardersAn Adventure In The Upper Sea Bald-faceIn Yeddo Bay ...

When God Laughs And Other Stories is a collection of short stories that you will enjoy. When God Laughs: makes London famous, including the battle for survival in the face of adversity, the baser instincts of human nature, and workplace abuse in industrialized civilizations.The Apostate: a young man who is troubled by the unfavourable workplace conditions. At spite of being brutalised by the inhumane working conditions in a textile factory, he eventually finds some kind of freedom. Just Meat: In order to get their hands on a cache of freshly stolen jewelry, two robbers arrange other's deaths.Make Westing: is a tale of a crooked sea captain torturing and abusing his crews during nightmare trips. A Piece of Steak: It depicts the ageing boxer's desperate struggles as he engages a younger opponent for the majority of a grueling twenty-round fight. All these stories distinctively and brilliantly uncover solid perspectives on human instinct at its worst or could express it more strongly than Jack London.

Martin Eden, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The Night-Born, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The Faith of Men is a brief tale assortment initially distributed in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's experience stories, every one of them set in London's favorite milieu - - the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "unattractive, blue-peered toward, spot confronted" tracker named Thomas Stevens and his following and inevitable killing of an ancient mammoth. "A Hyperborean Brew" additionally concerns Thomas Stevens and his plans. "In Batard," a shrewd expert makes a beast of an abhorrent canine. Different stories included are "The Faith of Men," "An excessive amount of Gold," "The One Thousand Dozen," "The Marriage of Lit," "Batard," and "The Story of Jees Uck."

Stories from Northland. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (passage) On each hand extended the timberland primitive, - the home of boisterous parody and quiet misfortune. Here the battle for endurance kept on pursuing with all its old ruthlessness. Briton and Russian were still to cover in the Land of the Rainbow's End - and this was its actual heart - nor had Yankee gold at this point bought its huge area. The wolf-pack actually gripped to the flank of the cariboo-crowd, singling out the powerless and the huge with calf, and pulling them down as callously as were it a thousand, thousand ages into the past. The scanty natives actually recognized the standard of their bosses and medication men, drove out awful spirits, consumed their witches, battled their neighbors, and ate their foes with a relish which commended their tummies. In any case, it was exactly when the stone age was attracting to a nearby. As of now, over obscure paths and chartless unsettled areas, were the harbingers of the steel arriving,...

On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales is the assortment of brief tales, distributed in 1919. The activity is set in Hawaii and shows London's adoration and direct information on the islands and the conventional lifestyle. Jack London stays one of the most darling American authors of the mid twentieth hundred years. This assortment is suggested for anybody who partakes in the brief tale structure, and it is an unquestionable requirement perused for enthusiasts of London's work. Partake in the perusing.

The Game is a collection of memoirs of the creator, Neil Strauss, and investigates his experiences with intriguing individuals from a specific local area. It depends on his genuine encounters over a range of two years. The original discussions about a sincerely disappointed man who joins a training camp and turns into a pickup craftsman. He becomes amazing at drawing in and tempting ladies so well that soon he ends up being a Guru nearby, surpassing the individual from whom he took in the craftsmanship. The book has shock components as the writer's experiences with the absolute most famous Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. The creator changes himself from a normal person into a man whom each lady would need to be with. His tone, his discussion abilities, and his style is to the point of beguiling any lady. The peak is unexpected to the convictions of the local area of pickup specialists. The Game aides ladies in figuring out the way of behaving of such men, and is likewise reasonable for men who need to beguile ladies.

[Smoke Bellew]This story presents to you the change of a guiltless youngster working for a news organization, into a meat eating, full hairy man. Christopher (Smoke) Bellew, a newspaperman, sets out on an excursion into the harsh Alaskan wild, just intending to assist his family members and be available for half a month. However, this challenge gets a new forthcoming of life, rather than expounding on these times, live them. He decides to remain in the Klondike himself and forge ahead with this newly discovered lifestyle. Life, passing, and love are three significant subjects of the novel, three of which Smoke has never experienced for himself. Jack London rejuvenates the intolerable environmental elements, however the everyday routine one should experience.

The author of the book 'Theft' is Jack London. He begins the book as a commercial fiction later concluded as a science fiction. Theft is a political piece, in which Knox a congressman, telling unethical activities of Anthony Starkweather, a well-known industrialist. Likewise London's other stories it is also showing, anti-capitalist theme. The whole plot of the story is moving around to search out the documents, that can confirm Knox statements.

"Michael, brother of jerry" is a 1917 novel via jack london. It's miles the sequel to his novel "jerry of the islands", which became also launched in 1917. The books tell the tale of the irish terriers jerry and his brother michael, who both are living on the solomon islands. This fascinating tale will attraction to dog fanatics and lovers of dog literature, and it isn't always to be missed by means of the ones who have read and loved different works with the aid of jack london. John griffith london (1876 - 1916), usually called jack london, become an american journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of industrial mag fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were capable of earn a large sum of money from their writing.

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most indispensable and unique person Jack London at any point made. Set in San Francisco, this is the narrative of Martin Eden, a devastated sailor who seeks after, fanatically and forcefully, dreams of training and abstract notoriety. London, disappointed with the awards of his own prosperity, planned Martin Eden as an assault on independence and an analysis of aspiration; nonetheless, quite a bit of its status as an exemplary has been given by admirers of its aggressive hero. Andrew Sinclair's wide-going presentation examines the contention between London's help of communism and his strong self-will. Sinclair additionally investigates the equals and divergences between the existence of Martin Eden and that of his maker, zeroing in on London's psychological melancholies and what they meant for his portrayal of Eden.

'Children of the Frost's, first printed in 1902, is a good collection of short stories of Jack London. Previously, most of these stories were published in, reputed weekly or monthly magazines. Most of the stories, knitted around North America and the Klondike Gold Rush. Exhibiting London's exemplary composing style, he imparts to us stories of Native Americans and Europeans struggling against difficult terrain and severe climatic conditions in Alaska.

Lost Face is an assortment of seven brief tales by Jack London. It takes its named from the primary brief tale in the book, about an European swashbuckler in the Yukon who outmaneuvers his Indian capturers' arrangements to torment him. This assortment incorporates London's most popular brief tale, To Build a Fire. It recounts the tale of another explorer in the Klondike who overlooks alerts about traveling solo and whose life relies upon the capacity to construct a fire. Additionally included are Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, and The Wit of Porportuk.

The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American essayist Jack London distributed in 1915 (distributed in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is an account of reincarnation.A outlining story is told in the principal individual by Darrell Standing, a college teacher serving life detainment in San Quentin State Prison for homicide. Jail authorities attempt to break his soul through a torment gadget called "the coat," a material coat which can be firmly bound to pack the entire body, initiating angina. Standing finds how to endure the torment by entering a sort of daze state, in which he strolls among the stars and encounters parts of past lives.I trample interstellar space, commended by the information that I was bound on immense experience, where, toward the end, I would track down every one of the inestimable formulae and have clarified to me a definitive mystery of the universe. In my grasp I conveyed a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I should contact each star in passing. Also, I knew, in everything completeness, that did I however miss one star I ought to be accelerated into some unplummeted pit of unbelievable and timeless discipline and culpability.

'The Son of the Wolf' was Jack London's first book, printed in 1900. He had written some short stories about Klondike gold rush and life in the remote North. In these stories he reflects the experiences of, miners and trappers life in Yukon. These stories tell us speculation of life, struggle, patience, and sacrifices. Exceptional qualities of women and on the relations between the white adventures and the native tribes. These stories also narrates the heroic deeds of men, pious and loving qualities of women and bond of friendship.

The novel 'White Fang' was written, by the American author Jack London in 1906. In this story, London depicts 1800s American life, with the thrilling experiences of Gold Rush and Yukon Territory. This story is based on the survival of a wild wolf. Wedding Scott a gentle and kind man saves the wild wolf White Fang from the clutches of his cruel master. By the love and compassion of Scott and his family, the wolf is domesticated and keen to protect the family. The theme of the story is animals are better than humans. White Fang gets love and kindness and returns the same.

A Son of the Sun is a novel written by Jack London, in 1912. It is set in the South Pacific toward the start of the twentieth 100 years and comprises of eight separate stories. The novel depicts the thrilling experiences of Captain David Grief, an adventurous young man, visited England to South seas, enjoying thrill and excitement of life. He faced the challenges of life enthusiastically and became a wealthy man. David Grief, as a money manager claims workplaces in Sydney, yet he is seldom there. London portrays the striking display of the South oceans with travellers, frauds, cheaters, privateers, and savages.

[The mutiny of the elsinore] life has lost its appreciate for Mr. Pathurst. New York, popularity, ladies, and artistic expressions have all become drawn-out. Looking for energy, he books entry on a freight vessel cruising from Baltimore to Seattle on a course that movements around the deceptive Cape Horn. Pathurst experiences more than he at any point expected in difficult situations, tempestuous tempests, and a mutinous group. His amazing battles on board the cruising transport Elsinore have given him another adoration forever, yet will he get by to benefit from it

Jack London's novel 'The Sea-Wolf', originally printed in 1904. It is the realistic story of a gentleman scholar Humphrey van Weyden, who is saved by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. This story tells about a man whose struggles with good and evil result in his demoralisation, disintegration, and death. Book reveals how raw nature can cause a human being to lose their grip on reality. The Sea-Wolf explores issues relating to class, strength, and will power. The book's central character, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and a moral sea captain who saves him.

Including stories of unconventional rich men, nostalgic characters, civil rights, dangers conveyed by a transporter pigeon, and ladies with The Night-Born enthralls and propels with its social editorial and odd conditions. With ten works of short fiction, Jack London's The Night-Born covers subjects of equity, man versus human instinct, authentic occasions, and more with a distinctive and interesting viewpoint.

'Burning Daylight' printed in 1910, was one of the most popular and earning book of Jack London, in his lifetime. The story is laid in the Yukon Territory in 1893. "Burning Daylight" is the nickname given to the main character of the novel. Initially, the idea of the story is taken from the life of Oakland businessman 'Borax' Smith. In search of good fortunes, he went Alaska, he discovered his good luck but unfortunately deceived by a group of people. Later by using arms he recovered the wealth.

The House of Pride is a striking setting in Edmund Spenser's incredible sonnet The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). The activities of cantos IV and V in Book I happen there, and perusers have related the construction with a few moral stories appropriate to the sonnet.

'The Red One' is a short story by Jack London. The Red One was first printed in the October 1918 issue of The Cosmopolitan, two years after London's death. The base of the story is about extra-terrestrial origin of red sphere and is worshipped by people as they perform sacrifices. This story whirls around Bassett, a scientist collecting butterflies in the jungle of Guadalcanal. When he incidentally by chance discovered a large red sphere worshipped by the local people, he forgets about his original aim and becomes obsessed with the Red One and in the end he sacrificed himself.