CHARLIE'S COUP by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
Another great Jack London short story culled from his adventures as a fish commission warden in the Oakland CA area.
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1001 Best of Jack London
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DEMETRIUS CONTOS by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
This story, from Jack London's early days, tells of the job of the Fish Patrol working to keep poachers from depleting the fish life in the San Francisco Bay. Great story!
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CHRIS FARRINGTON ABLE SEAMAN by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
In the great Jack London story, a 17 year old American working on a seal boat off the coast of Japan finds he needs to show his worth among his older shipmates, and finally the opportunity comes in the shape of a typhoon...
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BUNCHES OF KNUCKLES by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
A man and wife sailing in the South Seas with their crew begin encountering trouble with their hired captain- trouble which boils over when he starts drinking. Mayhem occurs when the hired captain pushes the wife overboard.
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THE MARRIAGE OF LIT-LIT by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
In the Alaskan outback, John Fox has to bargain with a stubborn tribal chief for the hand of his daughter and finds that the chief just can't enough out of the bargain.
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IN YEDDO BAY by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
A 16 year-old American sailor finds himself with no money to get back out to his ship and learns a valuable lesson. STORIES BY JACK LONDON BEST OF JACK LONDON. JACK LONDON PODCAST.
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BULLS by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
Jack London's autobiographical story covering the years when he traveled with hoboes. Bulls was and is the hobo expression for police, who were often rough on hoboes. Tune in to 1001 Heroes podcast for "KING OF THE ROAD"- the story of American hoboes yesterday and today. STORIES BY JACK LONDON BEST OF JACK LONDON JACK LONDON PODCAST
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WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
A classic Jack London short story in which a Hawaiian women is persuaded by a fiery preacher to bare her soul of all she knows about the town and its personal histories.
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KOOLAU THE LEPER by JACK LONDON
1001 Best of Jack London
Koolau The Leper by Jack London is the story of the leader of a leper colony in Hawaii that is refusing to have his people be moved to what they believe is a prison on Molokai. It is a powerful story of courage in the face of death, and takes the time to show the horrors of leprosy, which existed in Hawaii at that time, and the social injustices that were being committed upon the Hawaiian people by the haolies (whites) who came to the islands and assumed ownership through the dispensation of religion and ru
info_outlineWhy You Should Read... The Unexpected by Jack London
Short review by Evan C. Lewis
“The Unexpected is true to its name, full of twists and turns.”
The Unexpected is true to its name, full of twists and turns. But these surprises don’t just come in the form of dramatic plot events, they also come in an unexpected change of tone. Because, while in the beginning, the story seems set to become a thriller, it instead becomes a literary piece on morality and willpower.
This is the best of Jack London using hardship to test his protagonist. Rather than the central tension revolving around the protagonist fighting her adversity, it revolves around her struggle to keep to her morals while doing so. She makes an ethical decision to do something the right way, despite everything pushing her to take the easy way out. It’s interesting, perhaps not very surprising, that this narrative choice would occur in one of the very few stories of the earliest 20th century with a female protagonist.
Similar to Jack London’s survival adventures such as To Build a Fire and Love of Life, the story is filled with exhaustion, hunger, cold and pain. But in The Unexpected, it mostly takes place inside of a cabin with the forces behind the suffering, rather than being wind, snow, and sickness; being other people.
The unexpected pushes forward an idea that life should be a struggle. As tumultuous and traumatising as the protagonist Edith’s life is shown to be, the introduction philosophises that it is a much more human, much more worthwhile life to lead than one of complacency.
But the ending paints no clear picture, with no sign of heroic triumph or a return to safety. Life goes on, it seems to say. Whether you like it or not.
“The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity.” - The Narrator
But the Great Unexpected was yet to come into her life and put its test upon her.