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Before Adam - Jack London - Book 6 Mar 08, 2021

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Before Adam - Jack London - Book 6

Title: Before Adam

Overview: Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based on Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the pre-stone age life of one of his proto-human ancestors. Before Adam is a novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes of the man's hominid alter ego, one of the Cave People. In addition to the Cave People, there are the more advanced Fire People and the more animal-like Tree People. Other characters include the hominid's father, a love interest, and Red-Eye, a fierce "atavism" that perpetually terrorizes the Cave People. A saber-cat also plays a role in the story. Later scholars have noted strong eugenic themes in Before Adam. Those who are scientifically inclined may enjoy this novel more than fans of "standard" science fiction such as Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Published: 1906

Series: Novels #7

Author: Jack London

Genre: Science Fiction, Published 1900 Onward

Episode: Before Adam - Jack London - Book 6

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 3:49:54

Book: 6

Length Book: 3:49:54

Episodes: 1 - 6 of 6

Narrator: Tom Weiss

Memoriam: Marian Miles (1949 - 2017)

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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The Game - Jack London - Book 5 Mar 08, 2021

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The Game - Jack London - Book 5

Title: The Game

Overview: The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing; A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), The Abysmal Brute (1911), and The Game (1905). The Game is told, in part, from the point of view of a woman, the fiancée of one of the competitors. This is to be his last fight and they are to be married on the morrow. Against her better judgment, she agrees to watch the bout. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.

Published: 1905

Series: Novels #6

Author: Jack London

Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Sports Fiction, Sporting & Boxing Novel

Episode: The Game - Jack London - Book 5

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 1:41:52

Book: 5

Length Book: 1:41:52

Episodes: 1 - 6 of 6

Narrator: Tom Crawford

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 2 Mar 08, 2021

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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 2

Title: The Sea-Wolf

Overview: The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. It's first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."

Published: 1904

Series: Novels #5

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure, General Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Psychological Novel

Episode: The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 5:16:56

Book: 4

Length Book: 11:53:20

Episodes: 21 - 39 of 39

Narrator: Nick Bulka

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 1 Mar 08, 2021

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The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 1

Title: The Sea-Wolf

Published: 1904

Series: Novels #5

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure, General Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Psychological Novel

Episode: The Sea-Wolf - Jack London - Book 4, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 6:36:27

Book: 4

Length Book: 11:53:20

Episodes: 1 - 20 of 39

Narrator: Nick Bulka

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Book 3 Mar 08, 2021

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The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Book 3

Title: The Call of the Wild

Overview: Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with being harnessed in the same team as a dog that wants to kill him. Large, strong, and smart, Buck toughens to his new life. But even the toughest dog can be worn down by constant work, and after 3,000 miles of pulling sleds, Buck nears the end of his rope. Castaway as no longer useful, Buck is acquired by greenhorns whose inexperience nearly kills him, but after being saved by John Thornton, he, at last, finds a man he can love. Then on a remote gold-hunting expedition, Buck hears a call emanating from the woods and speaking to the wild heart of his distant ancestors. The lure of it almost balances the great love he bears for Thornton, but events take him away from his old life... and into legend.

Published: 1903

Series: Novels #3

List: 100 Classic Book Collection

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure, General Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction

Episode: The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Book 3

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 3:24:19

Book: 3

Length Book: 3:24:19

Episodes: 1 - 7 of 7

Successor: White Fang

Narrator: Mark F. Smith

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 2 Mar 08, 2021

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A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 2

Title: A Daughter of the Snows

Overview: A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend Anna Strunsky. Modern commentators have criticized the novel for its approval of the main character's view that Anglo-Saxons are racially superior. This novel contains very overt racial and gender stereotypes and as such reflects the attitudes growing in society at the time it was written. The novel was commissioned by publisher S. S. McClure, who provided London a $125 a month stipend to write it.

Published: 1902

Series: Novels #2

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure, General Fiction

Episode: A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2

Length Part: 4:31:38

Book: 2

Length Book: 8:34:43

Episodes: 16 - 30 of 30

Narrator: Don W. Jenkins

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 1 Mar 08, 2021

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A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 1

Title: A Daughter of the Snows

Published: 1902

Series: Novels #2

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure, General Fiction

Episode: A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London - Book 2, Part 1

Part: 1 of 2

Length Part: 4:03:03

Book: 2

Length Book: 8:34:43

Episodes: 1 - 15 of 30

Narrator: Don W. Jenkins

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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The Cruise of the Dazzler - Jack London - Book 1 Mar 08, 2021

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The Cruise of the Dazzler - Jack London - Book 1

Title: The Cruise of the Dazzler

Overview: The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. Young Joe Bronson, caught between poor grades and his father's threats of military school, runs away from home. He joins the crew of a sloop named the Dazzler, but quickly figures out his captain, Pete Le Maire (nicknamed "French Pete") frequently engages himself and those at his command in criminal activity. Will Joe be able to escape this unwanted and dangerous new life at sea? The nautical activities on board the sailing boat are authentically described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats enduring stormy weather at sea. Published in 1902, Jack London sold this book (his first full-length novel) as a boy's adventure novel set in San Francisco, his hometown. In his autobiography, London recalls lifting several more elements in this novel from his adolescence, as in youth he bought a sloop called the Razzle Dazzle from an oyster pirate nicknamed "French Frank."

Published: 1902

Series: Novels #1

Author: Jack London

Genre: Adventure Novel, Action & Adventure

Episode: The Cruise of the Dazzler - Jack London - Book 1

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 3:38:55

Book: 1

Length Book: 3:38:55

Episodes: 0 - 21 of 21

Narrator: Robert Keiper

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: determination, persistence, man versus nature, battle, morality play, perception, discovery, travels, adventure, family, jacklondon

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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 3 Mar 04, 2021

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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 3

Title: Resurrection

Overview: Resurrection (pre-reform Russian: Воскресеніе; post-reform Russian: Воскресение, tr. Voskreséniye, also translated as The Awakening), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as a panoramic view of Russia at the end of the 19th century from the highest to the lowest levels of society and an exposition of the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the institutionalized church. The novel also explores the economic philosophy of Georgism, of which Tolstoy had become a very strong advocate towards the end of his life, and explains the theory in detail. The publication of Resurrection led to Tolstoy's excommunication by the Holy Synod from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.

Published: 1899

Series: Resurrection Maude Translation Books 1 - 3, Novels #4

List: 100 Best Novels Of All Time, 100 World's Classics

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: Louise Maude

Genre: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Russian Literature, Realist Novel, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature, Political Fiction, Historical Romances

Episode: Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 3

Part: 1 of 1

Length Part: 4:00:51

Book: 3

Episodes: 1 - 28 of 28

Episodes Book: 129

Length Book: 20:27:57

Predecessor: The Decembrists (Unfinished and Abandoned)

Narrator: Collaborative

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: sins, nobleman, jury, trial, prostitute, arrested, murder, guilt, forgiveness, justice, quest, prisons, siberia, epic, injustice, redemption, spiritual, russian, love, lust, altruism, russia, laughter, 19th century, sympathy, terror, tears, disgust, resurrection, leotolstoy

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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 2, Part 2 Mar 04, 2021

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Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 2, Part 2

Title: Resurrection

Published: 1899

Series: Resurrection Maude Translation Books 1 - 3, Novels #4

List: 100 Best Novels Of All Time, 100 World's Classics

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: Louise Maude

Episode: Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy - Book 3 - Book 2, Part 2

Part: 2 of 2