Jack London eBooks
eBooks di Jack London editi da Sis Publishing
The call of the wild. E-book. Formato EPUB Jack London - Sis Publishing, 2014 -
“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.” – From The Call of the Wild Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is probably Jack London’s most famous work and takes place in the extraordinary conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush where powerful and strong sledge dogs were highly demanded. Jack London blends his experience as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness with his thoughts, which he drew from various influential intellectuals such as Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, concerning nature and the struggle for existence. The Call of the Wild may be simply read as an adventure about a dog in the wilderness; however, some hold the idea that it has something more valuable and deeper beneath, drawing parallels between humans and dogs, especially their emotions like pride, justice and shame and that it therefore may be read as a human allegory as well.
Martin Eden. E-book. Formato EPUB Jack London - Sis Publishing, 2013 -
“One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it.” – in a note by Jack London to Upton Sinclair This novel you hold in your hands is one of the best works by Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact who struggles to become a writer while he lives in the middle of poorness and nothingness and in meantime falls in love with an upper-class girl. However things do not work out the way he wants. Martin Eden does not approve of socialism, attacks it as “slave morality” and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. The success he is so passionately after in writing comes unfortunately too late, which not only causes many days full of desperate agony but also drives the girl he loves away from him. Ruth rejects Martin Eden in a letter saying, “if only you had settled down … and attempted to make something of yourself.” This of course is the breaking point for him. After all he made something of himself according to his philosophy. However, he is everything but what the society expects of him. This of course, changes when the wind of fame is under his wings.