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The Cruise Of The Dazzler: “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged.

In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where Jack completed grade school. Jack also worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university. He was lent money for that and after intense studying enrolled in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley.

In 1897, at 21 , Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney said he could not be London's father because he was impotent; and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men. Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Though equally because of his continuing dire finances Jack might have taken that as the excuse he needed to leave. In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, hip and leg problems many of which he then carried for life. By the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels.

By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing. A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a remarkable output of work. Twelve years later Jack had amassed a wealth of writings many of which remain world classics. He had a reputation as a social activist and a tireless friend of the workers.

And yet on November 22nd 1916 Jack London died in a cottage on his ranch at the age of only 40. Here we present The Cruise Of The Dazzler.

© 2014 London Publishing (E-Kitap): 9781783942671

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E-Kitap: 29 Ağustos 2014

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  1. Smoke Bellew: “But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind” Jack London
  2. The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
  3. The Death Of Ivan Ilych - "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace": "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace." Leo Tolstoy
  4. The Story Of The Gadsby: "One may fall but he falls by himself - Falls by himself with himself to blame." Rudyard Kipling
  5. The Pupil: “Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.” Henry James
  6. The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest." Sir Walter Scott
  7. The Wreck Of The Golden Mary: "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." Charles Dickens
  8. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  9. Rodney Stone: "We can't command our love, but we can our actions." Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind." Joseph Conrad
  11. American Notes: "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Rudyard Kipling
  12. The Athiest's Mass Honore De Balzac
  13. Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past." Sir Walter Scott
  14. Nana: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud." Emile Zola
  15. Chance - "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth": "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." Joseph Conrad
  16. Heart of Darkness: "We live as we dream…alone…" Joseph Conrad
  17. From The Earth To The Moon: “How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!” Jules Verne
  18. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. Around the World in Eighty Days: “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new” Jules Verne
  20. Lady Windemere's Fan: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde
  21. The Mill on the Floss: "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." George Eliot
  22. A Prince Of Bohemia Honore De Balzac
  23. Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?" Thomas Hardy
  24. Tom Sawyer: Abroad: "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." Mark Twain
  25. The Alkahest Honore De Balzac
  26. Notes From The Underground: "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise." Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  27. Dead Souls: “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” Nikolai Gogol
  28. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Jules Verne
  29. Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." Rudyard Kipling
  30. The Brothers Karamazov: “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  31. The Stars Now Unclaimed Drew Williams
  32. Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." James Joyce
  33. The Blithedale Romance: “To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
  34. The Snow Image: "In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel." Nathaniel Hawthorne
  35. Pride And Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen
  36. Red Badge Of Courage: “It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.” Stephen Crane
  37. The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel Stephen King
  38. Fall from Grace: A Novel Richard North Patterson
  39. The Companions Katie M. Flynn
  40. The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
  41. Tough Customer: A Novel Sandra Brown
  42. Star Trek: The Motion Picture Gene Roddenberry
  43. A Sudden Light: A Novel Garth Stein

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