LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jack london

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  • The People of the Abyss
    Jack London
    Jack London is a masterful storyteller. London spent some time living in the poorer areas of London, sleeping in workhouses and often living on the streets. This experience encouraged him to create this story. In this 1903 novel he tells the plight of the East End London poor at the end of the 1800’s. The Industrial revolution has made the hardships for the lower classes insurm...
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    22,79 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    Speakin’ in general, I ’ave tried ’em all, The ’appy roads that take you o’er the world. Speakin’ in general, I ’ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, But must get ’ence, the same as I ’ave done, An’ go observin’ matters till they die. --Sestina of the Tramp-Royal ...
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  • The Iron Heel
    Jack London
    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. In this science fiction novel the world governments are reforming into new Oligarchies. (Governments where a few elite have the power.) London predicts that the feudalism of th...
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    34,62 €

  • The Sea Wolf
    Jack London
    Jack London is a masterful storyteller. London spent some time living in Germany while writing The Sea Wolf. Humphrey was a gentle intellectual boy who was forced through circumstance to toughen up and become self-reliant. Humphrey was taken off a sinking ship by a cruel schooner captain. The captain takes an interest in his new cabin boy. When a woman castaway is picked up Hum...
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    29,66 €

  • Skriet Fran Vildmarken (1917)
    Jack London
    ''The Call of the Wild'' is a novel written by Jack London and published in 1917. The story follows the life of a domesticated dog named Buck who is stolen from his home in California and sold into the brutal world of the Yukon Gold Rush. Buck is forced to adapt to the harsh environment and becomes more and more wild as he learns to survive. Along the way, he encounters a varie...
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  • Jerry of the Islands
    Jack London
    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 of the Islands is the story of an Irish terrier who traveled around the South Seas. Jack London was inspired to write this story a...
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    21,68 €

  • The Star-Rover by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
    Jack London
    Yet even then did I know I had been a Star-Rover . . . * He has been imprisoned in San Quentin and subjected to the tortures of the damned for a crime he cannot reveal the details of -- for he knows nothing of it! And now he is sentenced to hang! 'The fools!' he rails. 'As if they could throttle my immortality with their clumsy device of rope and scaffold! I shall walk, and wal...
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    14,30 €

  • War of the Classes
    Jack London
    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. London wrote War of the Classes while living in California. The collection of essays expounds on his theories of government control and economic globalization. Essays included...
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    15,69 €

  • Revolution and Other Essays
    Jack London
    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. Other essays included in this work are: Somnambulists, Dignity of Dollars, Goliah, Golden Poppy, House Beautiful, Gold Hunters of the North, These Bones Shall Rise Again and o...
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    25,89 €

  • Martin Eden
    Jack London
    All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.-Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of your childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness a...
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    41,27 €

  • The Jacket (Star-Rover)
    Jack London
    He awoke in the dark. His awakening was simple, easy, without movement save for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlike most, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, the world about them, he knew himself on the moment of awakening, instantly identifying himself in time and place and personality. After the lapsed hours of sleep he took up, wi...
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    30,06 €

  • The Little Lady of the Big House
    Jack London
    From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o’clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in...
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    29,95 €

  • The Mutiny of the Elsinore
    Jack London
    In the Phaedrus, the Republic, the Philebus, the Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency of Plato to combine two or more subjects or different aspects of the same subject in a single dialogue. In the Sophist and Statesman especially we note that the discussion is partly regarded as an illustration of method, and that analogies are brought from afar which throw ...
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    29,80 €

  • The Mutiny of the Elsinore
    Jack London
    From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o’clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in...
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    33,53 €

  • Martin Eden
    Jack London
    The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself. He did not know what to do with his cap, and was stuffing it into his coat pocket when the other took it from him. The act was done quietl...
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    33,25 €

  • The Jacket (Star-Rover)
    Jack London
    All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.-Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of your childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness a...
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    33,79 €

  • The Little Lady of the Big House
    Jack London
    He awoke in the dark. His awakening was simple, easy, without movement save for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlike most, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, the world about them, he knew himself on the moment of awakening, instantly identifying himself in time and place and personality. After the lapsed hours of sleep he took up, wi...
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    33,69 €

  • The Cruise of the Snark - Jack London
    Jack London
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    22,91 €

  • The Sea Wolf - Jack London
    Jack London
    Jack London is a masterful storyteller. London spent some time living in Germany while writing The Sea Wolf. Humphrey was a gentle intellectual boy who was forced through circumstance to toughen up and become self-reliant. Humphrey was taken off a sinking ship by a cruel schooner captain. The captain takes an interest in his new cabin boy. When a woman castaway is picked up...
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    27,35 €

  • Martin Eden - Jack London
    Jack London
    Jack London was one of the first writers to write for fictional magazines. He was also one of the first American writers to earn a living just from his writing. Martin Eden is a writer who resembles London. When Eden sent a manuscript off in the mail he thought there was no human editor at the other end. There must be a machine designed to take the papers out of one envelope...
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    34,01 €

  • The Spinner’s Book Of Fiction (1907)
    Gertrude Atherton / Jack London / Mary Austin
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    24,25 €

  • The Abysmal Brute (1913)
    Jack London
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,17 €

  • Scorn Of Women
    Jack London
    ''Scorn of Women: In Three Acts'' is a play written by the renowned American author, Jack London, and was first published in 1906. The play is set in the late 19th century and revolves around the character of Captain Jasper Begg, a successful and wealthy businessman who is also a notorious womanizer. Despite his many affairs, he is still married to his wife, Julia, who is aware...
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    33,49 €

  • What Life Means To Me (1916)
    Jack London
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    13,94 €

  • The Acorn-Planter
    Jack London
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,74 €

  • The People of the Abyss
    Jack London
    Jack London is a masterful storyteller. London spent some time living in the poorer areas of London, sleeping in workhouses and often living on the streets. This experience encouraged him to create this story. In this 1903 novel he tells the plight of the East End London poor at the end of the 1800’s. The Industrial revolution has made the hardships for the lower classes insurm...
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    21,63 €

  • The Night-Born; The Madness Of John Harned; When The World Was Young; The Benefit Of The Doubt; Winged Blackmail; Bunches Of Knuckles; War; Under The Deck Awnings; To Kill A Man; The Mexican (1913)
    Jack London
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,21 €

  • The Iron Heel
    Jack London
    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. In this science fiction novel the world governments are reforming into new Oligarchies. (Governments where a few elite have the power.) London predicts that the feudalism of ...
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    30,00 €

  • Martin Eden
    Jack London
    Jack London was one of the first writers to write for fictional magazines. He was also one of the first American writers to earn a living just from his writing. Martin Eden is a writer who resembles London. When Eden sent a manuscript off in the mail he thought there was no human editor at the other end. There must be a machine designed to take the papers out of one envelope...
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    31,70 €

  • The House Of Pride
    Jack London
    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 as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,14 €