“The Star Rover” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Star Rover is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack London. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the ...

A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public sp...

John Griffith London (1876 – 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. “John Barleycorn” is a 1913 autobiographical novel by London that largely deals with his life-long struggle with alcoholism. The titles of the novel comes from an eponymous British folk ...

In "The Game," Jack London immerses readers in the tumultuous world of professional boxing in early 20th-century America. Through his vivid prose and gritty realism, London explores the moral complexities and brutal nature of the sport, capturing the physical and psychological struggles of the fighters. This short novel reflects London's trademark literary style, characterized by concise narrative and intense character development, while also presenting a broader commentary on society's fa...

The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time.[1] He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the E...

Something evil is lurking under the ground in Diana’s Grove. Summoned by his great-uncle, Richard Salton, Adam Salton travels to Lesser Hill, Mercia, only to find himself surrounded by evil. Be it the Castra Regis’s mesmeric assault on Lilla Watford, a child’s mysterious wounds, the lady Arabella March’s murder of Oolanga, or the terrifying white worm that dwells in a pit in Arabella’s house, Adam must work quickly to save himself and the other inhabitants of the area.Also known as...

"The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy" is a collection of some of the most well-known and influential short stories written by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer and philosopher. The collection includes stories such as "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Master and Man," among others.In these stories, Tolstoy explores themes such as morality, spirituality, love, and the meaning of life. He often portrays the struggles of the common people, their hardships and their atte...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is set at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age, and presents the complex characters and lyrical prose the great American novelist is known for.Anthony Patch is young, handsome, wealthy, and the heir to a large inheritance, but he is bored with life. The lazy youth does nothing but waste away his days with other members of New York City’s elite cafe society. When his friends introduce him to the b...

TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of THE GREAT GATSBY. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.• The Jelly-Bean• The Camel's Back• May Day• Porcelain and Pink• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Tarquin of Cheapside• "O Russet Witch!"• The Lees of Happiness• Mr. Icky• J...

The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reade

Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is Thomas Hardy's tragic story of Michael Henchard who over indulges in alcohol at a county fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he recovers his sobriety Mr. Henchard realizes his mistake but it is too late to get his family back. Devastated he decides not to touch alcohol again for the next twenty-one years. The novel advances eighteen years to find the teetotaling Henchard as the May...