The Strength of the Strong & Other Stories - Couverture souple

London, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1576466140 ISBN 13 : 9781576466148

Editeur : Quiet Vision Pub, 2003

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jack London was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, and remains one of the most beloved, but while his novels have remained continuously in print for a century, his short stories have been much harder to find. This varied and eclectic collection shows many of his concerns and interests: the lives of the indigenous people of America, man's struggle agaianst nature, his sympathy and compassion for the poor, and his predilection for writing stories set in a dystopian future

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quiet Vision Pub
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1576466140
• ISBN 13: 9781576466148
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible