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New Releases by JACK LONDONJACK LONDON is the author of The Abysmal Brute (2024), THE SEA WOLF (2023), THE IRON HEEL (2022), White Fang (illustrated Edition) (2021), Before Adam (2021).
release date: Dec 30, 2024
release date: Dec 23, 2023
release date: Sep 22, 2022
White Fang (illustrated Edition)
release date: Nov 15, 2021
release date: Oct 04, 2021
release date: Sep 29, 2021
The Star Rover by Jack London Annotated
release date: Sep 18, 2021
release date: Aug 25, 2021
A Daughter of the Snows Illustrated
release date: Jul 17, 2021
The Call of The Wild - Jack London
release date: Jun 10, 2021
Jack London - the Cruise of the Snark
release date: Apr 16, 2021
The Little Lady of the Big House Illustrated
release date: Apr 15, 2021
White Fang Annotated and Illustrated Edition by Jack London
release date: Mar 25, 2021
Michael, Brother of Jerry
release date: Jan 24, 2021
release date: Jan 19, 2021
Jerry of the Islands Annotated
release date: Jan 07, 2021
release date: Dec 26, 2020
The Sea Wolf/ Jack London: Annotated
release date: Nov 28, 2020
The Sea-Wolf is the harrowing story of a Danish youth named Humphrey "Hump" van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. The narrative is set in the Pacific Ocean, and highlights the sheer primordial power of nature. More importantly, London''s narrative explores how nature can affect the carefully ordered reality that people ascribe to themselves. Nature tears down the artifices that people put up. It reveals deeper, and at times, darker, selves. London''s characters must journey to find whether or not they can live with what nature reveals about their inner selves.Humphrey van Weyden is a product of upper middle class society. He hopes to become a great writer one day, thus expanding his worldview. Because of this desire, van Weyden eagerly seeks out adventures and new experiences. His desire to experience more of life, and his willingness for change in his limited worldview, set the stage for his physical and mental journey, a journey that will cast him out upon the sea and end in a darkness he never knew was there. After the ship van Weyden is journeying on, the Martinez, has a collision, his life is forever changed when the mad captain of a ship called Ghost rescues him.London introduces the brooding character of Wolf Larsen, a murderous sea captain who works thematically as a counter to the initial naiveté of van Weyden. Larsen is everything that van Weyden is not: a bully, self-absorbed and uncaring. His crew tries to revolt against him several times, but he always gains the upper hand. Alongside Larsen and van Weyden is Maud Brewster, a young poet who is rescued by the Ghost with another set of castaways. Though both Larsen and van Weyden fall for Maud, she becomes romantically involved with van Weyden, thus causing much of the ill-feelings and bullying from Larsen toward van Weyden.In addition to Larsen''s cruel treatment of his crew and van Weyden''s growth as a hardened individual, the love triangle between the three sets up much of the narrative, with van Weyden and Larsen pitted against one another. One character can be viewed as already evil, introduced to the reader as a corrupted man, while the other--van Weyden--will succumb to inner demons on his perilous journey for new experiences. When Larsen falls ill, van Weyden and Maud sail away to an island, where van Weyden puts all of his knowhow as a hardened sailor to use. Meanwhile, Larsen has been attacked by his angry brother, Death Larsen, and the Ghost crashes on the same island where Maud and van Weyden are hiding out.Both Maud and van Weyden must fight continuously to overcome all of the trials that Larsen places in their path, though nature--including human nature--will be the final contender for all involved.London''s narrative is similar to his other tales of hardship and survival in perilous conditions, yet it is also unique in its thematic approach to the human condition. London''s characters in The Sea-Wolf must not only face the harsh environment of the unforgiving sea, they must face the unforgiving nature found in one another, as well as their own natures. When not trying to stay alive from the sea, van Weyden and Maud must try to survive the cruel taunts and machinations of Larsen. Van Weyden himself must also try to fight his own inner demons, which have formed from his battles with Larsen and the harsh environment. In this way, London shows how encounters with the harshness of nature can change a person for better or worse. In van Weyden''s case, the sea corrupts his character, thus highlighting that mankind is not above reproach, nor is it superior to nature.Van Weyden is symbolic of an Everyman, standing in for all of mankind. His descent into madness is symbolic of man''s own darkness, something that seemingly lies just under the surface. If one is not careful, London seems to suggest, or if one becomes too boastful or egoistic, that inner darkness, which is as powerful...
The Little Lady of the Big House Annotated
release date: Sep 30, 2020
The Star Rover Illustrated
release date: Aug 11, 2020
release date: Jul 26, 2020
The Scarlet Plague (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 10, 2020
release date: Nov 01, 2019
The Call of the Wild (Annotated)
release date: Dec 20, 2018
Children of the Frost (1902) by Jack London
release date: Oct 21, 2018
The Little Lady of the Big House
release date: Jul 08, 2018
The Abysmal Brute by Jack London
release date: Dec 17, 2017
The Call of the Wild (Illustrated and Annotated)
release date: Nov 26, 2017
This is an annotated and illustrated version of the book1.contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2.It also contains new and unique illustrations to give a better documentation and realism to the book3.This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom''s chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that troublewas brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strongof muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming thefind, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanteddogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles bywhich to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. JudgeMiller''s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hiddenamong the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the widecool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached bygravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns andunder the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were oneven a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants''cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there was the pumpingplant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where JudgeMiller''s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hotafternoon.And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here hehad lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were otherdogs, There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they didnot count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or livedobscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, theJapanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, --strange creatures thatrarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, who yelpedfearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the windows at themand protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops.But Buck was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his.He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge''s sons;he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge''s daughters, on long twilightor early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge''s feetbefore the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge''s grandsons on hisback, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps throughwild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and evenbeyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches. Among theterriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterlyignored, for he was king, --king over all creeping, crawling, flyingthings of Judge Miller''s place, humans included.
release date: Nov 10, 2017
release date: Oct 26, 2017
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