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Sailor on Horseback: Jack London (Signet) Mass Market Paperback by Irving Stone (Author)

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Lightly crimped corner, otherwise text clean and tight; Studies In American Literary Realism And Naturalism; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages

Que notre dépaysement naisse des embruns et des tempêtes ou qu'il soit bercé par le souffle chaud des alizés, le message ne varie pas. L'exotisme, la mer, les vagues, les fêtes indigènes, les léproseries, les trafiquants aventureux ou ironiques ne font que composer un environnement dans lequel s'inscrit l'implacable combat de la vie. Guy Schoeller – Contient: Le Loup des mers, Histoire des îles, L'Île des lépreux, Jerry chien des îles, Contes des mers du Sud, Fils du Soleil, Histoires de la mer et Les Mutinés de l'Elseneur.

Jack London became one of the most famous and successful authors of his day with the publication of his vastly popular novels The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf. Over his brief life of forty years, he wrote at least fifty books, while pursuing a host of other careers as adventurer, sailor, prospector, explorer, journalist, war correspondent, sociologist, and rancher—careers that often diverted attention from, and even eclipsed, his achievements as a writer. In fact, for several decades after his death, scholars uniformly dismissed London's writings either as second-rate hack work or as adventure and animal stories for juveniles.Today, more than a century after London's initial literary successes, this volume offers insightful studies and analyses of the author and his works. These studies not only build on previous scholarship but also provide new interpretations, thus extending even further our understanding of the author's stories and novels.

First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Photographs of the covers of most London books. xxvii, 139 pages. pictorial cloth, clear plastic jacket.. square 8vo..

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California's waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild.A hard-drinking womanizer with children to support, Jack London was no stranger to passion when he met and married Charmian Kittredge, the love of his life. Despite his adventurous past, London had never before met a woman like Charmian; she adored fornication and boxing, and willingly risked life and limb to sail and explore. She typed his manuscripts while he churned out novels, serving as his inspiration and his critic.Lover, fighter, and onetime hobo, Jack London lived large and died before he was forty. This is a rare biography, from bestselling historian Alex Kershaw, that proves the truth can be more fascinating--and a far greater adventure--than a fiction.

xviii, 205p., front., very good condition. Contributions in political science, no. 117.

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.

Jack London has captivated millions of readers around the world with his classic tales of the high seas and untamed wilderness. His characters are men of courage and valor who struggle to survive the unforgiving elements. If you have never collected books before, you will want to start now. If you are a collector, Jack London Tales of the North is a must have for your personal library with its nonstop adventure and heroic exploits.It is American literature presented in its most dramatic form—a high adventure in reading. Here, in a facsimile of the original turn of the century magazines, in which many of his works first appeared, are four of Jack London’s greatest novels in their entirety: White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild and Cruise of the Dazzler, plus 15 of his best loved short stories, including In the Forests of the North, In a Far Country and The White Silence, from the rare original illustrated magazines. Jack London’s Tales of the North is an original. It is a collection pays tribute to the foremost American writer of his day and the most popular American writer abroad.

Jack London and the Klondike presents a vivid and accurate account of the young London's experiences during the Yukon gold rush, which furnished the substance for his most successful books. Walker masterfully re-creates this dramatic year in London's life through quotations from his travel diaries and the testimony of his companions, as well as related material from his fiction. First published in 1966, at a time when London was still regarded by many as little more than a writer of stories for children, Walker's study was the first treating London's outstanding contributions to literature, and it remains a definitive study of a crucial phase of his career.

Jack London: Call of the Wild; The Sea Wolf; White Fang; The Son of the Wolf; The Iron Heel; The People of the Abyss [leather_bound] London, Jack [Jan 01, 1983]

A ship's captain, his vessel ready to explode from a fire within its cargo hold, desperately searches for a way to save his crew. A missionary in Fiji is clubbed to death by a cannibal chief to satisfy a debt of honor. A scientist agrees to have his head chopped off in return for a last glimpse of a huge alien object half-buried in the jungles of Guadalcanal. A Melanesian youth, sold into slavery, gains revenge against his sadistic white overseer. With unbridled barbarity, the crew of a European ship massacres scores of islanders.These are some of the incidents in the action-filled short stories found in Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters. Though London's bestsellers about the frozen Northland are known to most, few readers are familiar with his tales set in the romantic and dangerous South Seas - an area of the world with which Jack London became intimate while traveling aboard his yacht, The Snark, in the first decade of the twentieth century.For the first time these stories are collected in a single volume with notes, an introduction, and an afterword that help to illuminate the racial tension of the colonial period in the Pacific. The stories are illustrated with the original artwork, several maps (including one of London's own), and photographs of the region.

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.

Reader's Digest Edition of 2 classics by Jack London, "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."

Here is a compelling middle grade nonfiction tale of how one classic writer drew upon a rugged life of adventure to create works of literature, punctuated by stunning black-and-white art by Wendell Minor and illustrative photographic material.Swept up in the Gold Rush of 1897, young Jack London headed north to strike it rich in the Klondike and discovered something more precious than gold―the seeds of the stories that would flower into his classic novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, and timeless short stories such as "To Build A Fire." This gripping tale follows London as he treks up the ruthless Chilkoot Trail, braves the lethal Whitehorse Rapids, survives a bad case of scurvy, and conquers many more dangers of the Yukon during his quest for gold. A Christy Ottaviano Book

Leather Bound Omnibus Edition.

1983 edition, like-new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked except for slight, attractive yellowing to the pages, in beautiful leatherette covers & bright embossed gilt cover design and gilt edges, without a dust jacket, as issued, from Chatham River Press. By Jack London. Edited by Paul Horowitz. A nice omnibus collection of London's classic fiction: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, the Sea-Wolf, and 40 short stories. Illustrated. One of the Greenwich Unabridged Library Classics series.

Gathers London's observations traveling across the U.S. as a tramp, and discusses the historical background of his trip

At age twenty-three, Jack London (1876--1916) sold his first story, and within six years he was the highest paid and most widely read writer in America. To account for his success, he created a fiction of himself as the quintessential self-made man. But as Clarice Stasz demonstrates in this absorbing collective biography, London always relied on a circle of women who nurtured him, sheltered him, and fostered his legacy. Using newly available letters and diaries from private collections, Stasz brings this diverse constellation of women to life. London was the son of freethinking Flora Wellman, yet found more maternal comfort from freed slave Jennie Prentiss and his stepsister Eliza. His early loves included a British-born consumptive, a Jewish socialist, and an African American. His first wife, Bess Maddern, was a teacher and devoted mother to daughters Bess and Joan, while his second wife, Charmian Kittredge, shared his passion for adventure and served as a model for many characters in his writings. Following his death, the various women who survived him both promoted his legacy and suffered the consequences of being constantly identified with a famous man. In recasting London's life through the eyes of three generations of women, Stasz manages to untangle his seemingly contradictory attitudes and actions. She also reveals the struggle that ensued, after his death, among family members and scholars over how he should be remembered. What emerges from this well-researched book is a new understanding of London and a compelling portrayal of the women who knew him best.