The narrator is a prehistoric youth who recounts his adventures in the middle Pleistocene era long before our time, when he and his tribe had to coexist and fight against not only ferocious carnivorous animals such as wild dogs, great boars, hyenas, and especially sabre-tooth tigers, but also primitive Tree-People who hated his kind and and especially the newly-emerged Fire-People, who had not only mastered fire but also speech (unlike his own people who did not yet have proper language) and (…)
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THE 151 JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE
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"Before Adam" - a prehistoric adventure novella (1906) by Jack London
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Jack London’s boxing stories
20 janvier 2019, par Jack LondonJack London wrote only four stories about boxing, but when he did they were winners !
Not only do these stories get you inside the minds and hearts of the fighters and of their entourages — managers, promoters, betters and (bloodthirsty) spectators — more intensely and grippingly and insightfully than, well, just about anyone else has ever done, but they are all penetrated with a sense of something higher and of great significance, in particular the vital sociological significance of food (…) -
"The Cruise of the Dazzler" - an adventure novella by Jack London (1902)
10 janvier 2019, par Jack LondonA story about a restless boy living in a wealthy area of San Francisco who just can’t concentrate on his studies and has only one thought in mind - to run away from this boring way of life at home and school to lead the exciting and adventurous outdoor life of a sailor. Which he actually does quite early on in the story, after getting zero in all his exams, and he does in fact have a very exciting time at first learning about seafaring and then about the unending dangers awaiting sailing men (…)
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"The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
1er janvier 2019, par Jack LondonTwelve stories of adventure and drama in the harsh climate of the Far North, mostly in the Klondike region of northwestern Canada, where immense gold resources were discovered in 1897.
An e-book is available for downloading below. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA (1899) Two prospectors engage in an epic hundred-mile dog-sled race to file a claim on a gold-rich stake and, above all, to win the promised hand of a very vivacious young woman (3,300 words).
2. A NORTHLAND (…) -
"By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
28 novembre 2018, par Jack LondonA selection of tales by the author of Lost Face, The Hobo and the Fairy, The Heathen, A Piece of Steak and so many other masterful stories. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. THE PLAGUE SHIP (1897) – on a grossly-overcrowded passenger ship, a deadly epidemic of yellow fever breaks out that decimates passengers, officers and crewmen alike – so severely that mutineers take over the officer-less ship and uncontrolled violence breaks out, leaving the surviving passengers to drift aimlessly around the (…) -
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
24 novembre 2018, par Jack LondonJack London’s masterpiece The Call of the Wild was an instantaneous world-wide success the minute it was published in 1903, selling over a million copies in the first year and a phenomenal, unheard-of 6 million copies overall in just a few years, making him the best-known contemporary writer in the world at the time.
It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.
The author, who had been earning his living writing stories for newspapers and magazines until (…) -
Jack London’s two war stories
4 décembre 2016, par Jack LondonAlthough Jack London was an experienced war correspondent, having covered the Japan-Russia conflict in 1904 and the Mexican Revolution in 1912, only 2 of his 199 stories and novelettes have soldiers and war as a central theme.
But one of them is an absolute masterpiece that you will have trouble ever forgetting ! 1. AN OLD SOLDIER’S STORY (1899) A somewhat comic albeit really quite dramatic tale about war-time recruitment difficulties that apparently had actually been experienced by the (…) -
A selection of South Seas stories by Jack London
2 novembre 2016, par Jack LondonJack London loved sailing and spent a lot of time boating around not only his beloved Bay of San Francisco, but also and especially the innumerable South Sea islands and Hawaii, which were the subject of a sizable portion of his oeuvre (33 short stories and novelettes, and 3 of his novels).
He was particularly fascinated by the culture-shock both sides experienced as the Western/European/American values and mores and money-power had recently steam-rolled their way across the Pacific in (…) -
Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories
31 octobre 2016, par Jack LondonThe best of Jack London’s writings were mostly produced during his inspired decade 1899-1908, after the year he had spent in the Klondike region of Canada’s Northwest Territories participating in the great gold rush there.
A majority (63) of the 107 short stories he wrote and published during that extraordinarily creative and prolific period were based on the harsh life and mostly-bitter experiences he had lived through and seen and heard about in that wild land.
With the Klondike (…) -
Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
16 juillet 2016, par Jack LondonJack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest of gold rushes.
We have regrouped here the very best of all of his Klondike tales centred on the struggle for survival in that extraordinarily severe and hostile – and dangerous – clime.
An e-book (…)