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The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Smith is one of the survivors of the era before the scarlet plague hit and is still left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, an..

From “The League of the Old Men” At the Barracks a man was being tried for his life. He was an old man, a native from the Whitefish River, which empties into the Yukon below Lake Le Barge. All Dawson was wrought up over the affair, and likewise the Yukon-dwellers for a thousand miles up and down. It..

John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of drinking and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong “John Barleycorn”.The novel’s themes include masculinity and male friendship. London discusses vari..

Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of dog ..

The Iron Heel is a political novel in the form of science fiction by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.The story proper begins with Avis Everhard, a daughter of a renowned physicist, John Cunningham, and future wife of socialist Ernest Everhard. At first, Avis Everhard does not ag..

Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its name from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his (American) Indian captors’ plans to torture him. Lost FaceTrustTo Build a FireThat SpotFlush of GoldThe Passing of Marcu..

The Human DriftSmall-Boat SailingFour Horses and A SailorNothing That Ever Came to AnythingThat Dead Men Rise Up NeverA Classic of The SeaA Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) Ürün Adı: The Human Drıft    Ürün Kodu: 9786258426779Yazar: Jack LondonBasım Yılı: 2024Kapak Türü: Karton KapakSayfa Sayısı: 104Ka..

London traveled to Hawaii in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including an eight-month stay shortly before he died in 1916. He had a fondness for the islands that is apparent in the rich descriptions in these tales.A departure from London’s normal tales of the frozen North, all of these tales take pl..

Joe Bronson, a young boy who lives in San Francisco, has trouble at home and at school. The never ending arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the Dazzler. Joe dreams of an sailor's life full of freedom and excitement but he soon realizes that he signed on a pirate ship..

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship.The House of MapuhiThe Whale ToothMauki“Yah! Yah! Yah!”The HeathenThe Terrible SolomonsThe Inevitable White ManThe Seed of McCoyÜ..

A collection of short stories set in Hawaii around the start of the twentieth century. It was published after his death and contains some of his last stories. Jack London had spent a fair amount of time in Hawaii and used that experience to add realism to his tales. They follow various characters th..

A collection of eight short stories from American author, journalist, and social activist Jack London. Written during his ‘Klondike’ period, the title story ‘Love of Life’ follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra.Love of LifeA Day’s LodgingThe White Man’s WayThe Story of KeeshThe ..

An oyster pirate on San Francisco Bay as a teenager, Jack London sailed his sloop, the Razzle Dazzle, in nightly raids on oyster beds. Selling the oysters, the next morning on the Oakland docks made him more money than he ever made in the factories. He became known as the “Prince of the Oyster Pirat..

"It reared its black, forbidding head like some huge monster rising from the deep." A typhoon rages off the coast of Japan and off the page, in Jack London's first story, published at age 17.In these vivid stories, London pits nature at its most extreme against men who must struggle violently to sur..

A forest hillside where great trees stand with wide spaces between. A stream flows from a spring that bursts out of the hillside. It is a place of lush ferns and brakes, also, of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the hillsi..

While living in sunny California, 'Brown Wolf', the dog-wolf is feeling the call of the wild nature of the desolate and frigid North. Neither the affection that surrounds him, nor the good living conditions can make him overcome his innermost desire to go back to his roots...BROWN WOLFTHAT SPOTTRUST..

The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society.Ürün Adı: Adventure    Ürün Kodu: 9786258426571Yazar: Jack LondonBasım Yılı: 2..

Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in..

A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London’s first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, “a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie” who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father’s community by her forthright manner and befriending the town’s prostitute. She is a..

Madame Bovary, originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.Madame Bovary takes place in provincial Norther..

From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-ma..

A Journey to the Center of the Earth also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne.It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded ..

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice (d??a??s???), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectual..

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" lit..

Evliya Çelebi (25 March 1611-1682) was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyâhatnâme (“Book of Travel”). The name Çelebi is an honorific title meaning “..

King-Errant is a 1912 novel by Flora Annie Steel. Flora Annie Steel (1847 - 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent.This fantastic novel will appeal to those with an interest in India, especi..

1937 bekam Orwell von Victor Gollancz den Auftrag die Verhältnisse der Bergarbeiter in Nordengland zu erforschen. Dazu sollte er sich nach Wigan Pier, einer Bergwerksgegend in der Nähe von Liverpool, begeben. Dort stellte die Verelendung der Grubenarbeiter von Lancashire und Yorkshire in den Jahren ..

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a ..

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology’s consumm..

Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur’s famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted "art for art’s sake" against c..

Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first publishe..

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The stories included in the collection are:The Offshore PirateThe Ice PalaceHead and ShouldersThe Cut-Glass BowlBernice Bobs Her HairBenedictionDalyrimple Goes WrongThe Four FistsÜrün ..

Essays and Lectures is a collection of essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISMTHE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ARTHOUSE DECORATIONART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMANLECTURE TO ART STUDENTSLONDON MODELSPOEMS IN PROSETHE ARTISTTHE MASTERTHE HOUSE OF JUDGMENTTHE TEACHER OF WISDOMÜrün Adı:..

An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1895 and ran for 124 performances. It has been revived in many theatre product..

De Profundis an 1897 work written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment, in the form of a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas...Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. ..

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is “a new and original play of modern life”, in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London.Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society. It has been revived from time to time since his death in 1900, ..