Moon-face and Other Stories

Moon-face and Other Stories PDF Author: Jack London
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.

Moon-Face

Moon-Face PDF Author: Jack London
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ISBN: 9781984168702
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Pages : 130

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The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...

Moon-face and Other Stories

Moon-face and Other Stories PDF Author: Jack London
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.

Moon Face and Other Stories

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Moon-Face, and Other Stories

Moon-Face, and Other Stories PDF Author: Jack London
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338700768X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Moon-Face & Other Stories Illustrated

Moon-Face & Other Stories Illustrated PDF Author: Jack London
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Pages : 166

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Moon-Face is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy.The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...The Leopard Man's Story is a short mystery story about the ingenious murder of "King" Wallace, a fearless lion-tamer as told by the "Leopard Man", a saddened leopard trainer who bears visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposes his daring profession.Other stories included are: Local Color, Amateur Night, The Minions of Midas, The Shadow and the Flash, All Gold Canyon, and Planchette.

Moon Face and Other Stories (Annotated)

Moon Face and Other Stories (Annotated) PDF Author: Jack London
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Pages : 144

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Moon Face and Other Stories is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy. The story follows the nameless protagonist and his irrational hatred for John Claverhouse, a man with a "moon face." The protagonist clearly states that his hatred for him is irrational, and says: "Why don't we like it? Ah, we don't know why; we only know that we don't like it. We were upset, that's all. And so I with John Claverhouse ". The protagonist is obsessed with Claverhouse, hates his face, his laughter, all his life. The protagonist observes that Claverhouse engages in illegal dynamite fishing and hatches a plan to kill Claverhouse. The protagonist teaches a dog, Bellona, to do one thing and one thing only, recovery, with an emphasis on recovering water and bringing the stick to the thrower no matter where they are.Claverhouse shows up with Bellona before her next trout fishing trip. The protagonist watches from a distance with joy when Claverhouse lights a stick of dynamite and throws it into the water. Bellona, trained to recover, searches for the explosive. Claverhouse flees the dog uselessly until "just as she caught up with him, he strode forward, and she jumped with her nose on his knee, there was a sudden flash, an explosion of smoke,

Moon-Face & Other Stories Illustrated

Moon-Face & Other Stories Illustrated PDF Author: Jack London
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Pages : 166

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Moon-Face is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy.The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...The Leopard Man's Story is a short mystery story about the ingenious murder of "King" Wallace, a fearless lion-tamer as told by the "Leopard Man", a saddened leopard trainer who bears visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposes his daring profession.Other stories included are: Local Color, Amateur Night, The Minions of Midas, The Shadow and the Flash, All Gold Canyon, and Planchette.

Moon-Face, and Other Stories

Moon-Face, and Other Stories PDF Author: Джек Лондон
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040839480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Moon-Face

Moon-Face PDF Author: Jack London
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ISBN: 9781331289227
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Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Excerpt from Moon-Face: And Other Stories We all experience such things at period in our lives. For the first time we see a certain individual, one who the very instant before we did not dream existed; and yet, at the first moment of meeting, we say: "I do not like that man." Why do we not like him? Ah, we do not know why; we know only that we do not. We have taken a dislike, that is all. And so I with John Claverhouse. What right had such a man to be happy? Yet he was an optimist. He was always gleeful and laughing. All things were always all right, curse him! Ah! how it grated on my soul that he should be so happy! Other men could laugh, and it did not bother me. I even used to laugh myself - before I met John Claverhouse. But his laugh! It irritated me, maddened me, as nothing else under the sun could irritate or madden me. It haunted me, gripped hold of me, and would not let me go. It was a huge, Gargantuan laugh. Waking or sleeping it was always with me, whirring and jarring across my heart-strings like an enormous rasp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Moon-Face & Other Stories Annotated

Moon-Face & Other Stories Annotated PDF Author: Jack London
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Pages : 180

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"Moon-Face" is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy.