Jack: 7257 books

The Complete Edition of " The Scarlet Plague -  Jack London ". With detailed Biography and complete table of contents The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an...

The Complete Edition of " Before Adam -  Jack London ". (Annotated), With detailed Biography. Before Adam is a historical novel, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine.  It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The...

With the Stories:  BROWN WOLF - THAT SPOT - TRUST - ALL GOLD CANYON - THE STORY OF KEESH - NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - MAKE WESTING - THE HEATHEN - THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY - „JUST MEAT“ - A NOSE FOR THE KING

"My best most serious sad and true book yet." -Jack Kerouac "His life . . . ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying workds becase they'd heard his astonishing revelations of heaven delivered in catechism...

Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect...

Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac’s Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon’s...

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of...

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within...

Martin Eden is a classic novel written by Jack London and first publised in 1909. A semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the authors most mature work. Personifying Londons own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin...

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....

THE BEST SHORT STORY - 5 AUTHORS Jack London Guy de Maupassant Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain H.H. Munro (SAKI) Ambrose Bierce L. Frank Baum Charlotte M. Yonge Anton Chekhov Nathaniel Hawthorne EDITED BY Ahmet Ünal ÇAM Aloha Oe by Jack London ________________________________________ Never...

The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. It first appeared in September 1911 in Popular Magazine. In the story, a successful boxer, who was brought up in a log cabin and knows little...

My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn’t mean anything to you. Unless you’re about to die. And then I’m your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in a hospital for the criminally insane. You picked up this book because of the title, right? Deathbed Confessions of the Criminally...