Jack London

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Jack London - Cruise of the Dazzler

Young Joe Bronson, caught between poor grades and his father's threats of military school, runs away from home. He joins the crew of a sloop named the Dazzler, but quickly figures out his captain, Pete Le Maire...

Robert Keiper 3 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Jack London was quoted as saying, «I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!» After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection...

Don W. Jenkins 3 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - When God Laughs, and Other Stories

This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, to the trials of life and travel on many frontiers, to an allegory about a...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild (version 4)

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 50 minutes

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Family Life

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Jack London - By The Turtles of Tasman

Turn of the century sibling rivalry between successful but uptight California businessman and his ne'er-do-well older brother, both widowers with equally-different 20-ish daughters. Written in 1911. — Summary by...

Bellona Times 1 hour 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Sea Wolf - Version 2

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea...

Nick Bulka 11 hours 53 minutes

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Jack London - Daughter of the Snows

In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, «a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie,» who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown...

Don W. Jenkins 8 hours 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Tales of the Fish Patrol

Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again...

Don W. Jenkins 2 hours 56 minutes

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Short Stories

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Jack London - Road

Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic strangers. In The Road, he relates the tales and memories of his days on the...

Barry Eads 4 hours 44 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Jack London - Before Adam

«Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and...

Tom Weiss 3 hours 49 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jack London - Revolution, and other Essays

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, «Revolution», outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active...

Michele Fry and 9 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jack London - Valley of the Moon

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern...

Richard Kilmer 19 hours 8 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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