Jack London
25) The Faith of Men
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Though best known for the novel The Call of the Wild, American author and activist Jack London was also a prolific short story writer. The Faith of Men is a tale packed with twists and turns that follows two wealthy friends as they navigate the challenges of love, life, and the great outdoors.
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Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Fonolibros
Language
Español
Description
El mundo a través de los ojos de un perro. La primera novela de Jack London, El llamado de la selva es una de esas obras únicas, en donde una serie de aventuras durante la fiebre del oro se ven a través de la visión de un perro, de fidelidad única, pero en el cual el llamado atávico de sus antepasados acaba triunfando. London estaba convencido de que la vuelta a la naturaleza, que en forma tan poderosa es en últimas el tema de la novela, es...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, "London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly not always—could have benefited from self-editing."
London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in these stories,
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