Jack London

When God Laughs and Other Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When God Laughs & Other Stories is an outstanding collection includes of stories from the author of Call of the Wild, White Fang and other classic works. Included here are five short stories entitled: When God Laughs; The Apostate; A Wicked Woman; Just Meat; Created He Them. This is a fabulous volume for those fans of Jack London. Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the 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 Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9781612034768
• ISBN-10: 1612034764
• Artikelnr.: 35343336

Autorenporträt

John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include 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.