Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jack London

Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jack London
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Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9780766084926
ISBN-13 : 0766084922
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jack London by : Stephanie Buckwalter

Jack London’s stories of adventure in the early twentieth century captured the imagination of the American public. As he ventured around the United States and the globe, he documented his adventures through his writing. Through excerpts and critical analysis, readers will examine London’s most famous works (The Call of the Wild, “To Build a Fire”), which are dramatic and compelling stories of man versus nature and versus himself. Other works explore the human condition, particularly the plight of the poor and working class. An examination of the autobiographical nature of many of London’s stories gives the reader a unique insight into the interaction between a writer’s world and his work.

Jack London, Enhanced Ebook

Jack London, Enhanced Ebook
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781469622675
ISBN-13 : 146962267X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Jack London, Enhanced Ebook by : Cecelia Tichi

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London's career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer leveraged his written words as a force for the future. Tracing the arc of London's work from the late 1800s through the 1910s, Tichi profiles the writer's allies and adversaries in the cities, on the factory floor, inside prison walls, and in the farmlands. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and as a political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals. This enhanced e-book edition of Jack London features significant archival motion picture footage. Eight ebook enhancements take readers into the motion-picture world of Jack London's 1900s--to the very sights that impacted his bestselling writings. Readers get front row seats to the terrifying San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to the Hawaiian beachfront where London first saw the Waikiki "surf riders," to ringside where prizefighters battled for championships. These and other historic film footage clips make this an ebook for the twenty-first century.

Mourt's Relation

Mourt's Relation
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Publisher : Applewood Books
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780918222848
ISBN-13 : 0918222842
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Mourt's Relation by : Anonymous

Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044080916042
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Call of the Wild by : Jack London

The Call of the Wild (Collins Classics)

The Call of the Wild (Collins Classics)
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 43
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ISBN-10 : 9780007480708
ISBN-13 : 0007480709
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (Collins Classics) by : Jack London

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Jack London, Photographer

Jack London, Photographer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 0820329673
ISBN-13 : 9780820329673
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Jack London, Photographer by : Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Examines the photography of the famed American author, from his photojournalist exploits in London, Veracruz, and the South Seas to his documentation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London
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Publisher : Modern Language Association
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781603291811
ISBN-13 : 1603291814
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London by : Jeanne Campbell Reesman

A prolific and enduringly popular author--and an icon of American fiction--Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in classrooms from middle school to graduate programs. London's biography and the role played by celebrity have garnered considerable attention, but the breadth of his personal experiences and political views and the many historical and cultural contexts that shaped his work are key to gaining a nuanced view of London's corpus of works, as this volume's wide-ranging perspectives and examples attest. The first section of this volume, "Materials," surveys the many resources available for teaching London, including editions of his works, sources for his photography, and audiovisual aids. In part 2, "Approaches," contributors recommend practices for teaching London's works through the lenses of socialism and class, race, gender, ecocriticism and animal studies, theories of evolution, legal theory, and regional history, both in frequently taught texts such as The Call of the Wild, "To Build a Fire," and Martin Eden and in his lesser-known works.

The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1)

The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1)
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 19145
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547723097
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Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1) by : Jules Verne

This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen

The New Statesman

The New Statesman
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 692
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924065580551
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Statesman by :

Getting at the Author

Getting at the Author
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1558497641
ISBN-13 : 9781558497641
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Getting at the Author by : Barbara Hochman

How typography conveys and affects meaning from the Bible to comic books