3. A selection of Jack London novels

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• "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London (1915)

  28 November 2022 by Jack London

  Told essentially from the point of view of Saxon, a beautiful young laundry-sweatshop working-girl who meets at the very beginning of this working-class romance the man of her dreams Billy, a handsome young teamster and former prize-fighter. Billy sweeps her off her feet and they get married a (...)

• "The Little Lady of the Big House" by Jack London (1916)

  21 November 2022 by Jack London

  Dick Forrest is the very wealthy, very handsome and very charming owner of an immense 250,000-acre ranch in the rich farmland of the Sacramento River valley where he breeds livestock that he exports all over the United States and elsewhere. Former hobo in his youth, former captain of the U. of (...)

• "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)

  1 April 2019 by Jack London and Charles Goddard

  As Jack London recounts in the interesting foreword to this unusual book, not only was he incapable of writing a successful film script, but “because a man had written a score of novels was no guarantee that he could write a good scenario. Quite to the contrary, it was quickly discovered that (...)

• "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London

  3 February 2019 by Jack London

  A university professor, who has been condemned to life imprisonment in the (in)famous San Quentin prison in California for the murder of another professor in an uncontrolled fit of rage, is constantly subjected to the excruciatingly painful straight-jacket treatment, consisting of leaving him (...)

• "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London

  3 February 2019 by Jack London

  John Pathurst is a rich, very successful and very blasé 30-year-old writer who has taken passage on a big four-masted sailing-ship carrying coals from Baltimore to Seattle, with the aim of resting his jaded nerves. Right away there are signs that the trip is not going to be an easy one – the crew (...)