The Wolf Trilogy Call Of The Wild White Fang The Son Of The Wolf

Author : Jack London
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1143 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027233397

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THE WOLF TRILOGY: Call of the Wild, White Fang & The Son of the Wolf by Jack London Pdf

The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The work details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the wild. White Fang is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon during the Klondike gold rush at the end of the nineteenth century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to Jack London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped civilized dog turning into a wild wolf. The book is characteristic of London's precise prose style and his innovative use of voice and perspective. Much of the novel is written from the viewpoint of the animals, allowing London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. Jack London (1876–1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3991 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547760894

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Jack London: All 22 Novels in One Illustrated Edition by Jack London Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this carefully created volume of the complete novels of Jack London. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Cruise of the Dazzler A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Kempton-Wace Letters The Sea-Wolf The Game White Fang Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Adventure The Scarlet Plague A Son of the Sun The Abysmal Brute The Valley of the Moon The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Star Rover (The Jacket) The Little Lady of the Big House Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor and war correspondent.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1279 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547680024

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The Tales of the North: Jack London's Edition - 78 Short Stories in One Edition by Jack London Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Son of the Wolf: The White Silence, The Son of the Wolf, The Men of Forty Mile, In a Far Country, To the Man on the Trail, The Priestly Prerogative, The Wisdom of the Trail, The Wife of a King, An Odyssey of the North. The God of His Fathers: The God of His Fathers, The Great Interrogation, Which Make Men Remember, Siwash, The Man with the Gash, Jan, the Unrepentant, Grit of Women, Where the Trail Forks, A Daughter of the Aurora, At the Rainbow's End, The Scorn of Women. Children of the Frost: In the Forests of the North, The Law of Life, Nam-Bok the Unveracious, The Master of Mystery, The Sunlanders, The Sickness of Lone Chief, Keesh, the Son of Keesh, The Death of Ligoun, Li Wan, the Fair, The League of the Old Men. The Faith of Men: A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold, The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-lit, Bâtard, The Story of Jees Uck. Love of Life & Other Stories: Love of Life, A Day's Lodging, The White Man's Way, The Story of Keesh, The Unexpected, Brown Wolf, The Sun Dog Trail, Negore, The Coward. Lost Face: Lost Face, Trust, To Build a Fire, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, The Wit of Porportuk. Smoke Bellew: The Taste of the Meat, The Meat, The Stampede to Squaw Creek, Shorty Dreams, The Man on the Other Bank, The Race for Number Three. + 19 Uncollected Stories: The Devil's Dice Box, The Test: A Clondyke Wooing, Even Unto Death, The King of Mazy May, Pluck and Pertinacity, A Northland Miracle, Thanksgiving on Slav Creek, The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen, The League of Old Men, To Build a Fire, Up the Slide... Jack London is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110516

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The Call of the Wild by Jack London Pdf

A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush. Note.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798703763803

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White Fang by Jack London Pdf

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption.The story begins before the wolf-dog hybrid is born, with two men and their sled dog team on a journey to deliver the coffin of Lord Alfred to a remote town named Fort McGurry in the higher area of the Yukon Territory. The men, Bill and Henry, are stalked by a large pack of starving wolves over the course of several days. Finally, after all of their dogs and Bill have been eaten, more teams find Henry escaping from the wolves; the wolf pack scatters when they hear the large group of people coming...

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3842442572

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The Son of the Wolf by Jack London Pdf

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Author : Jack London,Philip R. Goodwin,Charles Livingston Bull
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : 075482229X

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The Call of the Wild by Jack London,Philip R. Goodwin,Charles Livingston Bull Pdf

'The Call of the Wild' is the story of Buck, a domestic dog stolen, sold as a sled dog and forced to endure the brutal work and competition with the other dogs to be leader of the pack. 'White Fang' presents a similar story but in reverse as a wild wolf-dog mix is domesticated but faces great cruelty before finding a master.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519297238

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The Son of the Wolf by Jack London Pdf

Some of 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798655533448

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The Son of the Wolf Be Annotated by Jack London Pdf

Jack London produced some remarkable stories around the people who participated in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the twentieth century. The northern part of Canada that constitutes the Klondike region is known for its extreme weather and any misadventure or miscalculation can turn into a definitive recipe for death. Yet the availability of gold and lure of lucre led hordes of prospectors from America and Canada to try their fortunes in this indifferent and brutal setting. London traveled to these regions for a brief while and gained firsthand knowledge of these Argonauts who went gold prospecting and celebrated them and their lives through a series of stories. The setting in which men pitted against harsh nature, fellow men and animals brought the best and the worst in them. The greatness of London's stories lies in spinning interesting tales around his observations and encounters of these men, women and animals leading to a popular body of fiction which is unique, well-admired, memorable and a joy to read. "The Son of the Wolf" is one such collection of London's Klondike stories.For the gold prospectors in Klondike death, dying and destruction are part of the deal and therefore death of men, women or animal did not accompany conventional expression of grief. In the story "The White Silence", Mason - a gold prospector - is crushed under a tree by a freak accident and after meaningful attempts to do his best, Mason's best friend Malemute Kid despite his great attachment and love for Mason puts a bullet in him and continues on his journey with Mason's wife Ruth without a word or murmur. The loneliness of two men and a pregnant woman in the vast silence of those frozen wastelands is brought to life by London in a way that is unforgettableLondon's prose has a peculiar masculinity associated with it. Yet his portrayal of female characters in these stories is never any less to the male characters he writes about. In the stories "The Priestly Prerogative" and "The Wife of a King" one gets to see two strong willed women have their way and assert their independence with the help of honourable and just men who populate this male dominated settingIn Klondike region, weak minded and weak bodied men are simply winnowed out by the natural conditions. The story 'In a Far Country' is a tale of two such men who cocooned in an isolated shelter work towards mutual destruction for lack of strength, moral tenacity and trust. In an environment where being unjust and unfair could mean a chance of survival and an opportunity to live once again one expects men to develop a code of ethics that are savage and easily comprisable. On the contrary London's Argonauts are men of a moral fibre that is sturdy, impressive and emulation worthy. In three of the best stories in the collection "An Odyssey of the North", "To the Man on the Trial" and "The Wisdom of the Trail" one gets to see this chivalrous conduct of menAll migrations of human beings invariably end up in clash between the migrants and natives in some form or the other. The Klondike prospectors too had their share of such encounters. The title story "The Son of the Wolf" is a white man's attempt to get a native wife of his choice against the opposition of the youth and priest of the Tanana tribe. London's narration of the atmospherics of this encounter outlines the customs, mores, and apprehensions of two different cultures brilliantly.

Author : P. C. Wren
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2892 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547804666

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P. C. WREN Ultimate Collection: The Complete BEAU GESTE TRILOGY + 4 Novels & 42 Short Stories of the Foreign Legion by P. C. Wren Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "P. C. WREN Ultimate Collection: The Complete BEAU GESTE TRILOGY + 4 Novels & 42 Short Stories of the Foreign Legion" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: The Beau Geste Trilogy BEAU GESTE BEAU SABREUR BEAU IDEAL Novels: SNAKE AND SWORD THE WAGES OF VIRTUE DRIFTWOOD SPARS CUPID IN AFRICA (The Baking of Bertram in Love and War) Short Stories STEPSONS OF FRANCE: Ten little Legionaries À la Ninon de L'Enclos An Officer and—a Liar The Dead Hand The Gift The Deserter Five Minutes "Here are Ladies" The MacSnorrt "Belzébuth" The Quest "Vengeance is Mine..." Sermons in Stones Moonshine The Coward of the Legion Mahdev Rao The Merry Liars GOOD GESTES: What's in a Name A Gentleman of Colour David and His Incredible Jonathan The McSnorrt Reminiscent Mad Murphy's Miracle Buried Treasure If Wishes were Horses The Devil and Digby Geste The Mule Low Finance Presentiments Dreams Come True FLAWED BLADES: Tales from the Foreign Legion No. 187017 Bombs Mastic--and Drastic The Death Post E Tenebris Nemesis The Hunting of Henri PORT O' MISSING MEN: Strange Tales of the Stranger Regiment The Return of Odo Klemens The Betrayal of Odo Klemens The Life of Odo Klemens Moon-rise Moon-shadows Moon-set Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.

Author : P. C. Wren
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547690009

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Beau Geste - Complete Series: Beau Geste Trilogy & Good Gestes Tales by P. C. Wren Pdf

Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others) is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is the leitmotif of the trilogy. The Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt at Brandon Abbas. The rest of Beau's band are mainly Isobel, Claudia and Augustus. When a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water" goes missing, Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal are sequel novels and Good Gestes is a collection of short tales mainly about the Geste brothers and their American friends Hank and Buddy. Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion. Table of Contents: The Beau Geste Trilogy: BEAU GESTE BEAU SABREUR BEAU IDEAL GOOD GESTES: What's in a Name A Gentleman of Colour David and His Incredible Jonathan The McSnorrt Reminiscent Mad Murphy's Miracle Buried Treasure If Wishes were Horses The Devil and Digby Geste The Mule Low Finance Presentiments Dreams Come True

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Alaska
ISBN : OCLC:732816823

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White Fang by Jack London Pdf

Author : P. C. Wren
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1363 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547804673

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BEAU GESTE - Complete Collection: Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur & Beau Ideal TRILOGY + Good Gestes - Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers and Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion by P. C. Wren Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "BEAU GESTE - Complete Collection: Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur & Beau Ideal TRILOGY + Good Gestes - Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers and Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others) is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is the leitmotif of the trilogy. The Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt at Brandon Abbas. The rest of Beau's band are mainly Isobel, Claudia and Augustus. When a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water" goes missing, Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal are sequel novels and Good Gestes is a collection of short tales mainly about the Geste brothers and their American friends Hank and Buddy. Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion. Table of Contents: The Beau Geste Trilogy: BEAU GESTE BEAU SABREUR BEAU IDEAL GOOD GESTES: What's in a Name A Gentleman of Colour David and His Incredible Jonathan The McSnorrt Reminiscent Mad Murphy's Miracle Buried Treasure If Wishes were Horses The Devil and Digby Geste The Mule Low Finance Presentiments Dreams Come True

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798666930502

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White Fang Illustrated by Jack London Pdf

The story begins before the wolf-dog hybrid is born, with two men and their sled dog team on a journey to deliver the coffin of Lord Alfred to a remote town named Fort McGurry in the higher area of the Yukon Territory. The men, Bill and Henry, are stalked by a large pack of starving wolves over the course of several days. Finally, after all of their dogs and Bill have been eaten, four more teams find Henry escaping from the wolves; the wolf pack scatters when they hear the large group of people coming.The story then follows the pack, which has been robbed of its last prey. When the pack finally brings down a moose, the famine is ended; they eventually split up, and the story now follows a she-wolf and her mate, One Eye. The she-wolf gives birth to a litter of five cubs by the Mackenzie River, and all but one die from hunger. One Eye is killed by a lynx while trying to rob her den for food for the she-wolf and her cub; his mate later discovers his remains near the lynx's den. The surviving cub and the she-wolf are left to fend for themselves. Shortly afterward, the she-wolf kills all the lynx's kittens to feed her cub, prompting the lynx to track her down, and a vicious fight breaks out. The she-wolf eventually kills the lynx but suffers severe injury; the lynx carcass is devoured over a period of seven days as the she-wolf recovers from her injuries.One day, the cub comes across five Aboriginal people, and the she-wolf comes to his rescue. One man, Grey Beaver, recognizes the she-wolf as his brother's wolfdog, Kiche, who left during a famine. Grey Beaver's brother is dead, and so he takes Kiche and her cub and christens the cub White Fang. White Fang has a harsh life in the Indigenous People's camp; the current puppy pack, seeing him as a wolf, immediately attacks him. The Indigenous people save him, but the pups never accept him, and the leader, Lip-Lip, singles him out for persecution. White Fang grows to become a savage, callous, morose, solitary, and deadly fighter, "the enemy of his kind".It is at this time that White Fang is separated from his mother, who is sold off to another Indigenous people's Camp by Three Eagles. He realizes how hard life in the wild is when he runs away from camp, and earns the respect of Grey Beaver when he saves his son Mit-Sah from a group of boys seeking revenge. When a famine occurs, he runs away into the woods and encounters his mother Kiche, only for her to chase him away, for she has a new litter of cubs. He also encounters Lip-Lip, whom he fights and kills before returning to the camp.When White Fang is five years old, he is taken to Fort Yukon, so that Grey Beaver can trade with the gold-hunters. There, when Grey Beaver is drunk, White Fang is bought by an evil dog-fighter named Beauty Smith. White Fang defeats all opponents pitted against him, including several wolves and a lynx, until a bulldog called Cherokee is brought in to fight him. Cherokee has the upper hand in the fight when he grips the skin and fur of White Fang's neck and begins to throttle him. White Fang nearly suffocates, but is rescued when a rich, young gold hunter, Weedon Scott, stops the fight, and forcefully buys White Fang from Beauty Smith.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3947 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547009320

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Jack London's Adventure Collection by Jack London Pdf

This particular Jack London collection mirrors the incredible adventurous life of the author, it shows all the things he witnessed and experienced on his travels. Besides being a novelist, journalist and social activist – Jack London was also a railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, an oyster pirate, rancher, war correspondent..._x000D_ Novels_x000D_ The Cruise of the Dazzler_x000D_ A Daughter of the Snows_x000D_ The Call of the Wild_x000D_ The Sea-Wolf_x000D_ White Fang_x000D_ Burning Daylight_x000D_ Adventure_x000D_ The Scarlet Plague_x000D_ A Son of the Sun_x000D_ The Abysmal Brute_x000D_ The Mutiny of the Elsinore_x000D_ Jerry of the Islands_x000D_ Michael, Brother of Jerry_x000D_ Hearts of Three_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The White Silence_x000D_ The Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The Men of Forty Mile_x000D_ In a Far Country_x000D_ To the Man on the Trail_x000D_ The Priestly Prerogative_x000D_ The Wisdom of the Trail_x000D_ The Wife of a King_x000D_ An Odyssey of the North_x000D_ The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondike_x000D_ The God of His Fathers_x000D_ The Great Interrogation_x000D_ Which Make Men Remember_x000D_ Siwash_x000D_ The Man with the Gash_x000D_ Jan, the Unrepentant_x000D_ Grit of Women_x000D_ Where the Trail Forks_x000D_ A Daughter of the Aurora_x000D_ At the Rainbow's End_x000D_ The Scorn of Women_x000D_ Children of the Frost_x000D_ In the Forests of the North_x000D_ The Law of Life_x000D_ Nam-Bok the Unveracious_x000D_ The Master of Mystery_x000D_ The Sunlanders_x000D_ The Sickness of Lone Chief_x000D_ Keesh, the Son of Keesh_x000D_ The Death of Ligoun_x000D_ Li Wan, the Fair_x000D_ The League of the Old Men_x000D_ The Faith of Men & Other Stories_x000D_ A Relic of the Pliocene_x000D_ A Hyperborean Brew_x000D_ The Faith of Men_x000D_ Too Much Gold_x000D_ The One Thousand Dozen_x000D_ The Marriage of Lit-lit_x000D_ Bâtard_x000D_ The Story of Jees Uck_x000D_ Tales of the Fish Patrol_x000D_ White and Yellow_x000D_ The King of the Greeks_x000D_ A Raid on the Oyster Pirates_x000D_ The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen"_x000D_ Charley's Coup_x000D_ Demetrios Contos_x000D_ Yellow Handkerchief_x000D_ Lost Face_x000D_ South Sea Tales_x000D_ The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii_x000D_ Smoke Bellew_x000D_ The Red One_x000D_ On the Makaloa Mat_x000D_ Dutch Courage & Other Stories_x000D_ Memoirs_x000D_ The Road_x000D_ The Cruise of the Snark_x000D_ Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike_x000D_ From Dawson to the Sea_x000D_ Our Adventures in Tampico