Jack London novels

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• "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)

  1 April 2019 by Jack London

  As Jack London recounts in the interesting foreword to this unusual book, not only was he incapable of writing a successful film script, but “because a man had written a score of novels was no guarantee that he could write a good scenario. Quite to the contrary, it was quickly discovered that (...)

• "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London

  3 February 2019 by Jack London

  A university professor, who has been condemned to life imprisonment in the (in)famous San Quentin prison in California for the murder of another professor in an uncontrolled fit of rage, is constantly subjected to the excruciatingly painful straight-jacket treatment, consisting of leaving him (...)

• "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London

  3 February 2019 by Jack London

  John Pathurst is a rich, very successful and very blasé 30-year-old writer who has taken passage on a big 4-masted sailing-ship carrying coals from Baltimore to Seattle, with the aim of resting his jaded nerves. Right away there are signs that the trip is not going to be an easy one – the crew is (...)

• "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London

  10 December 2018 by Jack London

  This is about a rough, uneducated, young 20-year-old sailor and ex-gang-leader with a lot of drive and years of sailing all over the high seas behind him getting introduced to high society after having rescued the son of a wealthy family from a street brawl.
  He rapidly develops strong ideas (...)

• "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism

  26 November 2018 by Jack London

  The Iron Heel is Jack London’s militant declaration of faith in the final victory of socialism – of the purist variety – over the iniquitous system of capitalism that was an absolute scandal and anathema to him.
  The term “socialist” in 21st-century English is a quite inadequate term to convey the (...)