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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jack London is first and foremost a storyteller, and a great one at that. His stories have become fodder for a canon of American literary greatness and he is considered one of the country's best writers. However, his works go beyond mere tales of adventure and life in the icy tundra, although for some that might be his stock and trade. London's writings are rife with themes relating to his political views. The class struggle between employer and worker are evident in the human-to-dog interactions in The Call of the Wild. His exploration of class difference shows a depth of writing ability. Being able to tell the stories he does and still embed an important socio-political theme shows a mastery of writing not often seen, even among the most adept writers. Jack London's life and writing were instrumental in forming the language of the American rugged male writer. He did not invent the concept, but he wrote the part with a language simple enough for all to understand. In many ways, Jack London's stories, steeped in themes of nature vs. nurture and struggle for and against one's own nature, paved the path for other greats to trod, including Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and even Hunter S. Thompson.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Tale of The WolfMr. Jack London has written another capital animal story. The opening chapters describing a wolf pack on the meat trail are thrilling in the extreme. As a piece of vivid descriptive writing, Mr. London has never done anything better. There is something of the gruesomeness of one of Edgar Allen Poe's tales in his account of how the famished wolves hunted their victims across the snow. The scene in which the survivor crouching in the centre of a ring of fire surrounded by a circle of starving wolves who look upon him hungrily as a delayed meal that is soon to be eaten, is one which cannot be easily forgotten. The rest of the book is devoted to a description of the birth, upbringing, and adventures of White Fang, the offspring of a union of a dog and a wolf Nature, as Mr. London describes it, is indeed red in tooth and claw. The hunt for food among the wild animals is described with a minuteness that some readers will regard as excessive. Nor is there much improvement in this respect when the wolf cub becomes a servant of man. The savage struggle for existence still continues. A more humane element is only introduced towards the close of the book when White Fang comes into the possession of a Californian who masters his savage nature by the power of love. It is a powerful story and is certainly one of the best books that the present year has yet brought us.From The Review of Reviews, Vol. XXXV, Jan-June 1907, Pag 321.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextJack London is first and foremost a storyteller, and a great one at that. His stories have become fodder for a canon of American literary greatness and he is considered one of the country s best writers. However, his works go .

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