Adventure
About this book
Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company.
The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society. John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Adventure
- Table of contents
- Something to be Done
- Something is Done
- The Jessie
- Joan Lackland
- She Would a Planter Be
- Tempest
- A Hard-Bitten Gang
- Local Colour
- As Between a Man and a Woman
- A Message from Boucher
- The Port Adams Crowd
- Mr. Morgan and Mr. Raff
- The Logic of Youth
- The Martha
- A Discourse on Manners
- The Girl Who Had Not Grown Up
- "Your" Miss Lackland
- Making the Books Come True
- The Lost Toy
- A Man-Talk
- Contraband
- Gogoomy Finishes Along Kwaque Altogether
- A Message from the Bush
- In the Bush
- The Head-Hunters
- Burning Daylight
- Modern Duelling
- Capitulation
