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Elam Harnish is by nature a player to whom his whole life seems to be a game. Skillfully and cynically playing, Harnish makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets the stenographer Didon Mason. From this moment, his life under the beneficial influence of love changes, he becomes a spiritual person. Once he finds a gold mine, and the former excitement lights up in his eyes.

„Martin Eden” is one of the most famous novels of the famous American writer Jack London. The novel is largely autobiographical – the writer, like his hero, emerged from the bottom of society and achieved outstanding success in literature exclusively by his own efforts. Martin Eden, who comes from the very bottom of the social ladder of American society at the beginning of the 20th century, falls in love with a young girl, Ruth, who belongs to the bourgeois class. Seeing in...

Love of life is not only the name of the story, but also the main quality of one of the characters. Such an acute, almost tangible desire took possession of man that he, exhausted by hunger, cold, chills, illness, dislocation, hallucinations and other troubles that can await a lonely generational man in the forest. He survived the battle with a bear, with a wolf, with his mind and body, persuading him to rise again, persuading him to survive. The story is small in volume, w...

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London’s journey deep into the heart of darkness and madness that each person carries within themselves. It is the story of a Danish youth named Humphrey „Hump” van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. Humphrey Van Weyden is a gentleman, and academic, who has lived a soft life among civilized, like-minded people. He is on a steemer to visit a friend. On this trip, a fog settles and the ship gets struck and sinks. Mr...

Jack London po raz kolejny fabułę swojego opowiadania skupia na kobiecie. Tytułowa Jess jest bliżej nieokreślonego pochodzenia; w jej żyłach płynęła krew zarówno indiańska, eskimoska, jak i celtycka. Podobnie jak inne bohaterki tomu Serce kobiety Jess walczy o przetrwanie z bezlitosną Alaską. Jej życie zmienia się w chwili, gdy poznaje Neila Bonnera. Wydanie dwujęzyczne polsko-angielskieJack London (John Griffith Chaney) – autor powieści i opowiadań z wątkami autobi...

Zew krwi jest powieścią przygodową amerykańskiego pisarza Jacka Londona należącą do światowego kanonu literatury dziecięcej i młodzieżowej. Jej akcja rozgrywa się na Alasce w czasach gorączki złota. Bohaterem jest pies Buck, który wychował się w domowym zaciszu, otoczony miłością i dostatkiem. W wieku czterech lat zostaje sprzedany handlarzowi psów i z dnia na dzień znajduje się w niezwykle trudnych warunkach bytowania w bezkresnej krainie zimy. Czekaja t...

“The Call of the Wild” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primi...

“Theft” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Theft is a political piece set in Washington, DC. A Congressman, Howard Knox, is ready to reveal the corrupt practices of Anthony Starkweather, a wealthy industrialist. To complicate matters, Starkweather's daughter is helping Knox. The play's underlying anti-capitalist theme is also found in some of London's ot...

“The Acorn-planter: A California Forest Play” is a play by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Acorn-Planter was published the year that Jack London died. It is a play designed to be mostly sung accompanied by background music. It follows a tribe of California natives who react to the first presence of white settlers. The story then follows the tribe at a later da...

“Burning Daylight” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that yearand it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entre...

“Martin Eden” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of se...

“The Mutiny of the Elsinore” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. The novel is partially based on London's voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912.The character "De Casseres", who espouses nihilistic viewpoints similar to the ideas of French philosopher ...

“The Night-born” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Night-born is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of ten moving and thrilling stories such as: The Night-Born, The Madness of John Harned, When the World was Young or To Kill A Man.

“The Scarlet Plague” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London.. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.

“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, b...

Zbiór krótkich nowel o silnych mieszkankach i mieszkańcach Północy. Mroźny klimat Alaski odbija się na życiu i charakterach żyjących tam ludzi. Walka z ekstremalnymi warunkami przyrody przeplata się z opowieściami o człowieku. Na tle śnieżnych krajobrazów rozwijają się, nierzadko pełne poświęcenia, relacje damsko-męskie. Szczególną rolę odkrywają tu kobiety Północy. Niezwykła mądrość i odwaga tych, którym przyszło odnaleźć się nie tylko w surowym klimacie, ale i w otoczeniu w...

Tytułowy bohater, Christopher Bellew, to młody człowiek z dobrego domu, wykształcony, mieszkaniec wielkiego miasta, pracujący w redakcji jednej z gazet. Kiedy podczas spotkania ze stryjem dowiaduje się o planowanej wyprawie na Alaskę, decyduje się wziąć w niej udział. Przez pierwsze dni podróży Christopher (Kit) odkrywa swoją słabość fizyczną oraz kompletny brak przygotowania do twardego życia pioniera i poszukiwacza złota. Wyśmiewany przez wytrawnych podróżników i niejednokr...

John Barleycorn to autobiograficzna powieść Jacka Londona, opowiadająca o radości z picia i zmaganiach z alkoholizmem. Została wydana w 1913 roku. Tytuł pochodzi z brytyjskiej piosenki ludowej John Barleycorn.Tematem powieści jest męska przyjaźń. London omawia różne doświadczenia życiowe z alkoholem na różnych etapach swojego życia. Kluczowe etapy to późne lata nastoletnie, kiedy zarabiał jako marynarz, a także później, gdy był zamożnym, odnoszącym sukcesy pisarzem.W książce ...