A 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 (...)
Twelve 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.
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1. A Daughter of the Aurora (1899) Two prospectors engage in an epic hundred-mile dog-sled (...)
A 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.
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1. The Plague Ship (1897) – on a grossly-overcrowded passenger ship, a deadly epidemic of yellow fever breaks out that decimates (...)
Jack 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.
It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.
The author, who had been earning his living (...)
Although 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 (...)
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