Norwood Press
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Featuring eight works of short fiction, South Sea Tales by Jack London is an adventurous collection with a nautical theme. With settings on islands or ships, South Sea Tales tell the exciting, but often heartbreaking tales of violence, colonialism, and racism. The House of Mapuhi follows the son of a trading magnate, who travels from island to island buying valuable items for his mother's business. When he learns of a brilliant pearl owned by one...
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Love of Life and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer Jack London. Containing eight stories by the author, a master of literary Naturalism and an experienced outdoorsman and adventurer, Love of Life and Other Stories explores the experience of humanity on the edge of civilization. Set mostly in Canada and Alaska, these stories follow characters for whom survival is a constant struggle, for whom death is as familiar...
3) Before Adam
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A modern man experiences through his dreams the harsh and savage life of an ancestor from a time when our species was only beginning to rise above its animal origins. London's powerful writing conjures not only the sights, smells and sounds of that ancient time, but also the feelings of terror, joy and love that set early man apart from the animals.
Considered by many to be America's finest author, Jack London, had little formal schooling. Initially,...
4) White Fang
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Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?
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The Macmillan Company
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1905.
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English
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Robert Stead and Dr. Russell, clad for hunting, tramped down a pent road through the woodland and halted at the bars that separated it from the highway.
Like careful woodsmen, they made sure that their guns were at half-cock before resting them against the tumble-down wall; pulling out pipe and tobacco pouch, they filled and fingered the smooth bowls with the deliberation that is akin to restfulness. Then, face to windward, they applied the match...
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The Macmillan Company
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1906.
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English
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The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...
The Leopard Man's
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906.
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English
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Owen Wister was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. However, his works were not limited to the Western. "Lady Baltimore" is a novel about aristocratic Southerners in Charleston.
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The Macmillan Company
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1903.
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English
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Author Francis Marion Crawford (1854– 1909) was a prolific American writer, known especially for his novels set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. 'The Heart of Rome' is an historical romance set in 19th-century Rome. The family of the heroine, Sabine Conti, is suddenly impoverished. Her selfish mother leaves her with a social-climbing woman who's married to Baron Volterra--the man mainly responsible for the fall of the Conti...
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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1903.
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English
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Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard.
Two frowning boys sat in their tennis flannels beneath the glare of lamp and gas. Their leather belts were, loosened, their soft pink shirts unbuttoned at the collar. They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third. They sat at a table bared of its customary sporting ornaments, and from time to time, they questioned, sucked their...
15) A lady of Rome
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American fiction ; 1687
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Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906.
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English