“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 ...

What if your dreams were memories from before civilization? In Before Adam, Jack London explores a bold and imaginative idea: a modern man haunted by vivid dreams of a primitive ancestor struggling to survive in a brutal prehistoric world. Through these haunting visions, readers are transported to an age of early humanity—where survival depends on instinct, courage, and strength in a savage environment filled with danger. Blending adventure, evolutionary theory, and psychological depth, th...

Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned socialist, and celebrated writer–he retained a predilection for drinking on a prodigious scale. London’s classic "alcoholic memoirs"–the closest thing to an autobiography he ever wrote–are a sta...

White Fang is the title of a novel by American author Jack London. The novel was first serialized in The Outing Magazine in May to October 1906. It is the story of a wild wolfdog's journey toward becoming civilized in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped civilized dog turning into a wild animal.Much of the no...

Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor—two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head of the department did them the honor of waiting upon them himself—or did Joe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthed awe of the elevator boy who brought them up. Nor had she been blind to the marked respect shown J...

Classic Jack London short stories, including CONFESSION, HOLDING HER DOWN, PICTURES, "PINCHED", THE PEN, HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS, TWO THOUSAND STIFFS, and BULLS. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative caree...

"The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be ""the earliest of the modern Dystopian,"" it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less...

In the rural English countryside, an ancient legend of a slithering monster proves to be terrifyingly real. A seductive and enigmatic woman controls the beast, weaving a web of mesmerism and pagan ritual. This psychedelic horror story digs deep into folklore to unearth a primal evil lurking beneath the earth.

The queen of spades / A.S. Pushkin -- The cloak / N.V. Gogol -- The district doctor / I.S. Turgenev -- The Christmas tree and the wedding / F.M. Dostoyevsky -- God sees the truth, but waits / L.N. Tolstoy -- How a Muzhik fed two officials / M.Y. Saltykov -- The shades, a phantasy / V.G. Korolenko -- The signal / V.N. Garshin -- The darling / A.P. Chekhov -- The bet / A.P. Chekhov -- Vanka / A.P. Chekhov -- Hide and seek / F.K. Sologub -- Dethroned / I.N. Potapenko -- The servant / S.T. Sem...

Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror.

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after the Great War in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, materialistic and experience significant disruptions in respect to classism, marriage, and intimacy . The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's rel...

This carefully crafted ebook: “Tales of the Jazz Age - The Original 1922 Edition” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is the second collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. It includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. The story "May Day" depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldier...