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The Little Match and Other Writings has writings from authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe,Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Susan Glaspell, Willa Cather, Shirley Jackson, Langston Hughes, Jesse Stuart, Frank Stockton & .Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.The Book Contains Below Stories;The Little Match Girl; To Build a Fire; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; A Dark Brown Dog; The Monkey's Paw; The Cask of Amontillado; Eve's Diary; The Story of An Hour; The Luck of Roaring Camp; Regret; The Skylight Room; A Horseman in the Sky; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; The Minister's Black Veil; The Cactus; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; Scarlet Stockings; An Angel in Disguise; The Purloined Letter; A Jury of Her Peers; On the Gull's Road; The Lottery; Thank You, M'am; The Split Cherry Tree; The Cat; The Lady, or the Tiger? & The Night Came Slowly.

Jack London published a collection of short stories titled ""Dutch Courage And Other Stories"" in 1924. Fans and collectors of London's wonderful work shouldn't miss this collection, which will appeal to anyone who enjoys the short tale format. John Griffith London, better known by his pen name Jack London, was an American journalist, novelist, and social crusader who lived from 1876 to 1916. The book contains ten stories. Typhoon Off The Coast Of Japan Sailing-master remembers Sophie Sutherland's arrival in 1893 off the coast of Japan, close to Cape Jerimo. To get into position, the team had to pull three pairs of oars. The Lost Poacher Unknowingly, Mary Thomas had crossed the line. The men's looks were sombre because they knew too well what had happened to other seal-hunting poachers. The Banks Of The Sacramento Jerry Spillane, a young man, was singing an old chantey as he sat on a cabin step and watched the Sacramento River. Out of the pine trees, a tall, blue-shirted man wearing a rifle shirt asked him about his father. Other stories include Dutch CourageChris Farrington: Able Seaman To Repel BoardersAn Adventure In The Upper Sea Bald-faceIn Yeddo Bay ...

When God Laughs And Other Stories is a collection of short stories that you will enjoy. When God Laughs: makes London famous, including the battle for survival in the face of adversity, the baser instincts of human nature, and workplace abuse in industrialized civilizations.The Apostate: a young man who is troubled by the unfavourable workplace conditions. At spite of being brutalised by the inhumane working conditions in a textile factory, he eventually finds some kind of freedom. Just Meat: In order to get their hands on a cache of freshly stolen jewelry, two robbers arrange other's deaths.Make Westing: is a tale of a crooked sea captain torturing and abusing his crews during nightmare trips. A Piece of Steak: It depicts the ageing boxer's desperate struggles as he engages a younger opponent for the majority of a grueling twenty-round fight. All these stories distinctively and brilliantly uncover solid perspectives on human instinct at its worst or could express it more strongly than Jack London.

Martin Eden, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The Night-Born, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictitious, represented book by Jack London chronicling his cruising experience across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Going with London on this journey was his better half Charmian and a little group. London showed himself heavenly route and the fundamentals of cruising and of boats throughout this experience and portrays these subtleties to the peruser. During the journey they visited fascinating areas including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. His first-individual records and photos give knowledge into these remote spots toward the start of the twentieth hundred years.

The Faith of Men is a brief tale assortment initially distributed in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's experience stories, every one of them set in London's favorite milieu - - the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "unattractive, blue-peered toward, spot confronted" tracker named Thomas Stevens and his following and inevitable killing of an ancient mammoth. "A Hyperborean Brew" additionally concerns Thomas Stevens and his plans. "In Batard," a shrewd expert makes a beast of an abhorrent canine. Different stories included are "The Faith of Men," "An excessive amount of Gold," "The One Thousand Dozen," "The Marriage of Lit," "Batard," and "The Story of Jees Uck."

The Call of the Wild is a short experience novel by Jack London, distributed in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when solid sled canines were sought after. The focal character of the novel is a canine named Buck. The story opens at a farm in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is taken from his home and sold into administration as a sled canine in Alaska. He turns out to be logically more crude and wild in the cruel climate, where he is compelled to battle to get by and overwhelm different canines. By and by, he sheds the facade of human advancement, and depends on early stage intuition and learned insight to arise as an innovator in nature.

Love of life is one of the agent works of American pragmatist author Jack London, who utilizations itemized depictions of mental and philosophical exercises to frame an amazing picture feeling,e.g. in the cruel Canadian tundra, the ravenous, the injured beat the restrictions of their lives and make due in outrageous circumstances, with the goal that perusers can have an vivid understanding experience. In this book, London put the hero into a very troublesome and threatening living climate that is nearly confined from reality as well as extremely definite and sensible subtleties to introduce a emotional and undulating excursion of endurance to perusers by the third individual story point of view.This paper will dive into the exceptional appeal of Jack London's imaginative creation from two points of view: plot advancement and detail portrayal.

South Sea Tales is an assortment of eight interesting stories of imagination and experience in the South Seas. In light of Jack London's own experiences cruising in the South Pacific, "South Sea Tales" incorporates the accompanying short sotries: The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, "Yah! Yah! Yah!", The Heathen, The Terrible Solomons, The Inevitable White Man, and The Seed of McCoy. Perusers, everything being equal, will thoroughly enjoy these stories of nautical experience.

Stories from Northland. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (passage) On each hand extended the timberland primitive, - the home of boisterous parody and quiet misfortune. Here the battle for endurance kept on pursuing with all its old ruthlessness. Briton and Russian were still to cover in the Land of the Rainbow's End - and this was its actual heart - nor had Yankee gold at this point bought its huge area. The wolf-pack actually gripped to the flank of the cariboo-crowd, singling out the powerless and the huge with calf, and pulling them down as callously as were it a thousand, thousand ages into the past. The scanty natives actually recognized the standard of their bosses and medication men, drove out awful spirits, consumed their witches, battled their neighbors, and ate their foes with a relish which commended their tummies. In any case, it was exactly when the stone age was attracting to a nearby. As of now, over obscure paths and chartless unsettled areas, were the harbingers of the steel arriving,...

On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales is the assortment of brief tales, distributed in 1919. The activity is set in Hawaii and shows London's adoration and direct information on the islands and the conventional lifestyle. Jack London stays one of the most darling American authors of the mid twentieth hundred years. This assortment is suggested for anybody who partakes in the brief tale structure, and it is an unquestionable requirement perused for enthusiasts of London's work. Partake in the perusing.

The Game is a collection of memoirs of the creator, Neil Strauss, and investigates his experiences with intriguing individuals from a specific local area. It depends on his genuine encounters over a range of two years. The original discussions about a sincerely disappointed man who joins a training camp and turns into a pickup craftsman. He becomes amazing at drawing in and tempting ladies so well that soon he ends up being a Guru nearby, surpassing the individual from whom he took in the craftsmanship. The book has shock components as the writer's experiences with the absolute most famous Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. The creator changes himself from a normal person into a man whom each lady would need to be with. His tone, his discussion abilities, and his style is to the point of beguiling any lady. The peak is unexpected to the convictions of the local area of pickup specialists. The Game aides ladies in figuring out the way of behaving of such men, and is likewise reasonable for men who need to beguile ladies.

[Smoke Bellew]This story presents to you the change of a guiltless youngster working for a news organization, into a meat eating, full hairy man. Christopher (Smoke) Bellew, a newspaperman, sets out on an excursion into the harsh Alaskan wild, just intending to assist his family members and be available for half a month. However, this challenge gets a new forthcoming of life, rather than expounding on these times, live them. He decides to remain in the Klondike himself and forge ahead with this newly discovered lifestyle. Life, passing, and love are three significant subjects of the novel, three of which Smoke has never experienced for himself. Jack London rejuvenates the intolerable environmental elements, however the everyday routine one should experience.

The author of the book 'Theft' is Jack London. He begins the book as a commercial fiction later concluded as a science fiction. Theft is a political piece, in which Knox a congressman, telling unethical activities of Anthony Starkweather, a well-known industrialist. Likewise London's other stories it is also showing, anti-capitalist theme. The whole plot of the story is moving around to search out the documents, that can confirm Knox statements.

"Michael, brother of jerry" is a 1917 novel via jack london. It's miles the sequel to his novel "jerry of the islands", which became also launched in 1917. The books tell the tale of the irish terriers jerry and his brother michael, who both are living on the solomon islands. This fascinating tale will attraction to dog fanatics and lovers of dog literature, and it isn't always to be missed by means of the ones who have read and loved different works with the aid of jack london. John griffith london (1876 - 1916), usually called jack london, become an american journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of industrial mag fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were capable of earn a large sum of money from their writing.

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most indispensable and unique person Jack London at any point made. Set in San Francisco, this is the narrative of Martin Eden, a devastated sailor who seeks after, fanatically and forcefully, dreams of training and abstract notoriety. London, disappointed with the awards of his own prosperity, planned Martin Eden as an assault on independence and an analysis of aspiration; nonetheless, quite a bit of its status as an exemplary has been given by admirers of its aggressive hero. Andrew Sinclair's wide-going presentation examines the contention between London's help of communism and his strong self-will. Sinclair additionally investigates the equals and divergences between the existence of Martin Eden and that of his maker, zeroing in on London's psychological melancholies and what they meant for his portrayal of Eden.

Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibling of canine named Michael, about whom London composed another novel - Michael, Brother of Jerry. In the introduction, Jack London tells about the boat Minota on which he voyaged and which destroyed in the Solomon Islands. Skipper Kellar of Eugenie transport protected Jack London after the wreck yet later passed on by the hands of the man-eaters. London makes reference to a letter that he got from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford expounded on a correctional undertaking on the adjoining island. The second point of the activity was looking for the remaining parts of Jack London's companions. During the journey on Minota, Jack London and his significant other observed a canine on board the boat, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple connected to Peggy such a lot of that London's better half took the canine after the disaster area of t

'Children of the Frost's, first printed in 1902, is a good collection of short stories of Jack London. Previously, most of these stories were published in, reputed weekly or monthly magazines. Most of the stories, knitted around North America and the Klondike Gold Rush. Exhibiting London's exemplary composing style, he imparts to us stories of Native Americans and Europeans struggling against difficult terrain and severe climatic conditions in Alaska.

Lost Face is an assortment of seven brief tales by Jack London. It takes its named from the primary brief tale in the book, about an European swashbuckler in the Yukon who outmaneuvers his Indian capturers' arrangements to torment him. This assortment incorporates London's most popular brief tale, To Build a Fire. It recounts the tale of another explorer in the Klondike who overlooks alerts about traveling solo and whose life relies upon the capacity to construct a fire. Additionally included are Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, and The Wit of Porportuk.

First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London's life was unfortunately short however loaded with episode and experience. In John Barleycorn he keeps his initial difficulties in Oakland, his encounters as clam privateer, remote ocean sealer, homeless person, Yukon goldminer, understudy, nonconformist, and - eventually - top of the line creator. Long ignored by London hardliners (who wish he had never composed it) and utilized against him by pundits who might see him as a self-admitted inebriated, John Barleycorn should be commended for what it is: an exemplary of American life account.

The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American essayist Jack London distributed in 1915 (distributed in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is an account of reincarnation.A outlining story is told in the principal individual by Darrell Standing, a college teacher serving life detainment in San Quentin State Prison for homicide. Jail authorities attempt to break his soul through a torment gadget called "the coat," a material coat which can be firmly bound to pack the entire body, initiating angina. Standing finds how to endure the torment by entering a sort of daze state, in which he strolls among the stars and encounters parts of past lives.I trample interstellar space, commended by the information that I was bound on immense experience, where, toward the end, I would track down every one of the inestimable formulae and have clarified to me a definitive mystery of the universe. In my grasp I conveyed a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I should contact each star in passing. Also, I knew, in everything completeness, that did I however miss one star I ought to be accelerated into some unplummeted pit of unbelievable and timeless discipline and culpability.

'The Son of the Wolf' was Jack London's first book, printed in 1900. He had written some short stories about Klondike gold rush and life in the remote North. In these stories he reflects the experiences of, miners and trappers life in Yukon. These stories tell us speculation of life, struggle, patience, and sacrifices. Exceptional qualities of women and on the relations between the white adventures and the native tribes. These stories also narrates the heroic deeds of men, pious and loving qualities of women and bond of friendship.

Brown Wolf is a story written by Jack London. While living in radiant California, the dog wolf, is feeling the call of the wild nature, stark, ruined and bone chilling North. Neither the warmth that encompasses him, nor the great everyday environments can cause him to defeat his deepest craving to return to his underlying inception. In the story, Jack London, gives a wide outlook to understand mother nature and human nature. He also boosts emotional, curious and adventurous spirit of readers.

A collection of seven short stories, 'The Strength of the Strong' is London's marvellous composition. In these stories London highlighted the problems of the working classes and given a vivid picture of socialistic society. With various symbolic characters for government, industry, labour, religion etc., these stories set in diverse settings. He starts to look back with prehistoric stories, but also includes the stories of Chinese invasion of the world later in twentieth century.

'The Valley of the Moon' is an autobiographical portrait of Jack and his wife Chairman leaving working on the Oakland docks to live in Sonoma Valley. The story of Saxon and Billy is a love story that starts off with a boom and then go through difficulties and hard times. Saxon and Billy end up following a wonderful dream. This book is notable for the scenes in which the hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Moon. It is Saxon, London's most fully realised heroine, who embraces these concerns.

The Road, first published in 1907, is an autobiography by Jack London. London explains about his experiences and adventures as one of the hoboes. He spent his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. London starts with a story showing what excellent liars hoboes could be. He presents his illustration as an apology to a woman in Salt Lake City that he convinced to provide him support. The next chapter explains some other skills of the hobo, the most important of which is the 'holding down' of the train. The rest of the book details different aspects of hobo life, including their diverse backgrounds. The last chapter is about the "bulls", the cops. London says throughout the book about how the American system is unfair to the hoboes.

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's most remarkable book, published in 1902. Frona Welse is a strong female character of the book. It narrates the tale of Frona Welse's life in Yukon, originally she is a Stanford graduate and actual Valkyrie (supernatural woman) who takes to the path subsequent to disturbing her affluent dad's local area by her direct way and become friends with the town's whore. She is additionally conflicted between affection for two admirers: Gregory St Vincent, a neighbourhood man who ends up being weak and misleading; and Vance Corliss, a Yale prepared mining engineer. The novel is imperative for its solid and confident champion, one of numerous who might individuals his fiction.

The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American essayist Jack London. The story concerns a circle of drama. The hero, Dick Forrest, is a farmer with a graceful streak (his "oak seed tune" reviews London's play, "The Acorn Planters."). His better half, Paula, is a fiery, athletic, and physically mindful lady (in one scene, she rides a steed into a "swimming tank," arising in "a white smooth slip of a swimsuit that shaped to her structure like a marble-carven veiling of curtain.") Paula, as Charmian, is dependent upon sleep deprivation; and Paula, as Charmian, can't bear youngsters. In light of a perusing of Charmian's journal, Stasz recognizes the third vertex of the triangle, Evan Graham, with two genuine men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. Indeed, even minor characters can be distinguished; Forrest's worker Oh My looks like London's valet Nakata. The long-unshaven vagrant rationalist Aaron Hancock looks like the genuine deep rooted whiskery vagabond logician Frank Strawn-Hamilton, who was a drawn out visitor at the London farm. Artist Haakan Frolich shows up as "the stone carver Froelig" - and painter Xavier Martinez shows up as the person "Xavier Martinez!"