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  • Seven Jack London Novels (Complete and Unabridged) Including
    Jack London
    Jack London’s novels flow effortlessly and the storylines are captivating. This volume brings together seven of Jack London’s most popular novels: The Call of the Wild - the story of the dog Buck who is taken away from his domestic life and forced to work in brutal conditions. White Fang - the story of a prospector and his fiercely protective wolf-dog.The Scarlet Plague - In th...
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    72,38 €

  • The call of the Wild
    Jack London
    A fierce and yet tender tale of loyalty between man and beast, told from the point of view of a dog. The Call of the Wild is the story of a dog in the frozen Yukon told from his point of view. But this brilliantly told tale of a canine hero is in fact a graphic picture of the great gold rush to the Klondike in 1897. Brutal and fierce on one hand, it is also a story of tendernes...
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    14,26 €

  • White Fang by Jack London
    Jack London / Shinie Antony
    The Orphanage for Words documents the unsaid, what is forgotten, spoken long ago, means nothing anymore. The bad, bad poetry of first love. Old yellowing letters at the bottom of a trunk. Words that jam your hands on the steering wheel long after the lights turn green. Lies men tell women to get them into bed, lies women tell the men they cheat. An old man holding his wife’s ha...
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    17,70 €

  • Moon-Face And Other Stories
    Jack London
    About the Book: Moon-Face and Other Stories Moon-Face and Other Stories is a collection of deeplyinsightful and thrilling stories from Jack London. Told in London’sinimitable style, Moon-Face and Other Stories offers a collection of deeplyinsightful stories, including other famous works such as The Leopard-Man’s Story, The Minions of Midas andPlanchette, that consolidated Londo...
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    9,79 €

  • Jack London on Jack London
    Jack London
    Jack London’s two most acclaimed nonfiction books are together in one volume. During his relatively brief literary career, Jack London published over one hundred works of prose and drama and inspired scores of biographies claiming to know the truth about Jack London, whatever that truth may be. The truth is, there is no better authority on London than Jack London himself. Part ...
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    18,29 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
    Jack London’s White Fang was first serialized in Outing magazine. It is a story of Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog’s journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel to London’s best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped, domesticated dog turning into a wild animal....
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    14,07 €

  • The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
    Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is a novella taking place during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon a place where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The Call of the Wild details Buck’s struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from hum...
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    12,72 €

  • The Iron Heel
    Jack London
    The Iron Heel is considered to be the one of the earliest of the modern dystopian novels. It chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States and Jack London’s most explicit display of his socialist views. The Iron Heel stresses future changes in society and politics and is uncommon among London’s writings in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagoni...
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    15,15 €

  • The Sea-Wolf
    Jack London
    The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel about a literary critic who survives an ocean collision and comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain. The Sea Wolf tells the story of the soft, domesticated Humphrey van Weyden who is forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard...
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    14,97 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    The Road is a collection of short stories, autobiographical essays, Jack London wrote about his time 'on the road'. Each story details an aspect of the hobo life at the turn of the 19th century from catching a train to cadging a meal. Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the fir...
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    15,48 €

  • John Barleycorn
    Jack London
    John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of and struggles with alcoholism. Alcoholic beverages play a big role in facilitating the themes of John Barleycorn dealing with the social facilitation of alcohol, but is also a cautionary tale about the addictive powers of alcohol and its deleterious effects on health. He discusses various ...
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    15,24 €

  • Before Adam
    Jack London
    Before Adam is a novel about a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early humanoid Australopithecine. The story offers an early view of human evolution and is told through the eyes of the boy’s humanoid alter ego, one of the Cave People.Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the...
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    14,20 €

  • Children of the Frost
    Jack London
    Children of the Frost is a series of short stories by Jack London about Alaska and the Eskimo people. An underlying theme in some stories is the racism between the western white man and the native Alaskan.Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain ...
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    11,44 €

  • When God Laughs and Other Stories
    Jack London
    When God Laughs & Other Stories is an outstanding collection includes of stories from the author of Call of the Wild, White Fang and other classic works. Included here are five short stories entitled: When God Laughs; The Apostate; A Wicked Woman; Just Meat; Created He Them. This is a fabulous volume for those fans of Jack London.Jack London was an American author, journalist, ...
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    12,43 €

  • The Valley of the Moon
    Jack London
    The Valley of the Moon is Jock London’s story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, who are struggling laborers in Oakland at the turn of the 19th Century. They left city life searching Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own. The Valley of the Moon is notable for the scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists’ c...
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    25,29 €

  • The Son of the Wolf
    Jack London
    Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. Son of the Wolf is his first collection of stories drawing on his experience in the Yukon. The stories included 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 t...
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    14,24 €

  • The Scarlet Plague
    Jack London
    The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel taking place in 2073. It is sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.Jack L...
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    12,42 €

  • The People of the Abyss
    Jack London
    The People of the Abyss is a book about life in the East End of London. Jack London wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.Jack London was an American...
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    15,24 €

  • The Jacket
    Jack London
    The Jacket is a story of reincarnation. The story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by using a torture device called 'the jacket.' Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experience...
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    18,73 €

  • The Cruise of the Snark
    Jack London
    The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details ...
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    18,70 €

  • South Sea Tales
    Jack London
    South Sea Tales is a collection of Jack London short stories set in island communities like Hawaii, or aboard a ship. Stories include; The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, 'Yah! Yah! Yah!', The Heathen, The Terrible Solomons, The inevitable White Man, and The Seed of McCoy.Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of co...
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    13,29 €

  • Martin Eden
    Jack London
    Martin Eden is a novel about a proletarian young autodidact struggling to become a writer. It 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 merely a cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,’ returning ...
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    16,63 €

  • Love of Life and Other Stories
    Jack London
    Love of Life and Other Stories is a collection of eight short stories by Jack London. It takes its named from the first short story in the book, one of London’s most famous Northern short stories. Other stories included are; The Story of Keesh, A Day’s Lodging, The Unexpected, The Sun Dog Trail, Negore, The Coward, The White Man’s Way, and Brown Wolf.Jack London was an Americ...
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    14,24 €

  • Lost Face
    Jack London
    Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its named from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his Indian captors’ plans to torture him. This collection includes London’s best-known short story, To Build a Fire.Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the w...
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    14,16 €

  • Burning Daylight
    Jack London
    Burning Daylight was Jack London’s best selling book during his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight, was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story is partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur 'Borax' Smith.Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social a...
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    18,60 €

  • The Human Drift and a Collection of Stories
    Jack London
    The Human Drift and A Collection of Stories is a collection of Jack London stories including: 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). Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist...
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    8,46 €

  • Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
    Jack London
    Brown Wolf was first published in Everybody’s Magazine then later released in this collection by editors who felt a great demand for London’s American-pioneer writing style. Also included are; That Spot, Trust, All Gold Canyon, The Story of Keesh, Nam-Bok the Unveracious, Yellow Handkerchief, Make Westing, The Heathen, The Hobo and the Fairy, Just Meat, and A Nose for the King...
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    15,33 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
    Hardcover - Readers' Classic Gift Collection by Converpage Digital Reproductions 'Striving to keep American literature on our book shelves' Jack London tells the story of a wolf-dog who endures great cruelty before he comes to know human kindness. The major themes touch upon Naturalism, Survival of the Fittest and Romanticism. White Fang is considered a companion to London's '...
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    35,45 €

  • The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
    Hardcover - Readers Classic Gift Collection by Converpage Digital Reproductions 'Striving to keep American Literature on our book shelves' Buck is a domesticated dog whose instincts return when events find him working as a sled dog in the frigid Yukon during the 19th century Gold Rush. An amazing insight into the instincts and actions of a sled dog. A heart-wrenching story t...
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    30,27 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
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    14,65 €


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