American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and moving narratives. Jack London, in full John Griffith Lon...
Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, London captured the...
"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: he was the product of a literary condition in America....
A WRECKER, says the Oxford English Dictionary, is someone "who causes shipwreck, for the purposes of plunder by showing luring lights or false signals" or "a person who makes a business of watching for and plundering wrecked vessels." In her grimly fascinating book,...
Nothing is more eagerly awaited in the cruise world than a new ship. Over the next three months, three cruise ships and two river steamboats are making their debuts. In order of appearance, they are: The Crystal Symphony, which today is cruising the...
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