The Iron Heel

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People of the Abyss written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written when London arrived in England at the age of 25, this book gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the 20th century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its propensity for transferring wealth to the rich.

Author : Jack London London
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736410727
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Plague written by Jack London London and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more than a wild-animal runway. Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through the forest-mould, advertised that the rail and the ties still remained. In one place, a ten-inch tree, bursting through at a connection, had lifted the end of a rail clearly into view. The tie had evidently followed the rail, held to it by the spike long enough for its bed to be filled with gravel and rotten leaves, so that now the crumbling, rotten timber thrust itself up at a curious slant. Old as the road was, it was manifest that it had been of the mono-rail type.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 : 9780448411033
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories written by Jack London and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1960 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call of the wild -- Cruise of the dazzler -- In Yeddo Bay -- Chris Farrington, able seaman -- Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen -- Dutch courage -- Lost poacher --Adventure in the Upper Sea -- Nam-Bok, the liar -- Jan, the unrepentant -- Diable, a dog -- Law of life -- Siwash -- Man with the gash -- Too much gold -- Keesh, the son of Keesh -- In a far country -- Men of Forty Mile --Marriage of Lit-lit -- Leopard man's story -- Impression London's special report on the Gold Strike in Alaska gold hunters of the North.

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Heel written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846770067
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as a writer of classic adventure stories such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London also had a parallel career as a writer of science fiction and fantasy. In Leonaur's three volume, The Collected Science Fiction & Fantasy of Jack London, his SF and fantasy novels and shorter works are brought together for the first time. Darrell Standing is a university professor and convicted murderer. He's also The Star Rover. During long spells in solitary confinement, his body immobilised by a canvas jacket that prevents all movement, he develops a technique that allows his non-corporeal self to wander through time and home in on lives that were his before he was Darrell Standing. His adventures - engaging, vivid and exciting - offer an eye-witness perspective on a past that might have been. This volume also includes three entertaining shorter works that show Jack London as a more than worthy contemporary of H. G. Wells.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726644924
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Forests of the North written by Jack London and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jack London's short story "In the Forests of the North," two cultures clash with grave consequences. Explorers discover unmapped territory far in the North, where they encounter an Eskimo settlement as well as a white man who disappeared years before. Upon meeting his 'brothers' again, the white man called John Fairfax is tempted to leave the settlement, where he has been for the last five years but is pulled back by his marriage to the local chief's daughter. Not willing to give up his husband, Fairfax's wife resists him leaving, and a violent fight erupts between the visitors and local people. The short story is one of London's stories inspired by the period the writer spent at the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 19th century and was published in the early 20th century. Jack London (1876–1916) was an American writer and social activist. He grew up in the working class, but became a worldwide celebrity and one of the highest paid authors of his time. He wrote several novels, which are considered classics today, among these 'Call of the Wild', 'Sea Wolf' and 'White Fang'.

Author : Michael Schwalbe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unlocking the Iron Cage written by Michael Schwalbe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He finds mostly middle-class men trying to cope with the legacy of fathers who gave little emotional sustenance and with a competitive society they find unsatisfying, who sympathize with many of women's complaints about men and sexism (though Schwalbe also finds that many joined as a reaction to what they saw as feminism's blanket indictment of men), and who are searching for an alternative to the traditional image of a man as rational, tough, ambitious, and in control.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726606682
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iron Heel written by Jack London and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Iron Heel" is a dystopian novel by Jack London, thought by some to be one of the earliest examples in the genre. Set in the United States, it deals with possible future changes in social and political terms. It is a prophetic tale, warning against the horrors of authoritarian power, awaiting classics like "1984" and "Brave New World". It is also a story of love, sacrifice, and downfall. The exploration of the class system with all its inequalities and inadequacies turn the novel into a rather political read, perfect for fans of social science fiction and dystopian literature in general. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer and social activist. He grew up in the working class, but became a worldwide celebrity and one of the highest paid authors of his time. He wrote several novels, which are considered classics today, among these 'Call of the Wild', 'Sea Wolf' and 'White Fang'.

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535005791
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Piece of Steak written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Piece of Steak" was a short story written by Jack London which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in November 1909. It took him about half a month to write it and earned him five hundred dollars.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Flame Tree Collections
ISBN 13 : 9781839644740
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Orwell Visions of Dystopia written by George Orwell and published by Flame Tree Collections. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orwell is most well-known for his two famous books Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (Down and Out in Paris' and London and Road to Wigan Pier), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. Homage to Catalonia chronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his subsequent novels. The new collection (with Professor Richard Bradford's new introduction, and a foreword by Whitbread Prize winner D.J. Taylor) brings together his celebrated novels and seminal non-fiction, with work that influenced him by Jack London, who also explored poverty and totalitarian in The Iron Heel (fiction) The People of the Abyss (non-fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin whose own work We (1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state. A new addition to the Flame Tree deluxe Gothic Fantasy series on classic and modern writers, exploring origins and cultural themes in myth, fable and speculative fiction. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.