Jack London

Tales of the Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 1989
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141958606
• Artikelnr.: 38145816

Autorenporträt

Jack London (1876-1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike river in north-west Canada, which became the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Jack London became one of the most widely read writers in the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Edited with an Introduction by Andrew Sinclair
Introduction
Notes to the Introduction
The Chinago
The House of Mapuhi
The Whale Tooth
Mauki
The Seed of McCoy
Good-By, Jack
The Sheriff of Kona
Koolau the Leper
The Bones of Kahekili
When Alice Told Her Soul
Shin-Bones
The Water Baby
Afterword: Jack London's Life and Works
Note on the Texts