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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Moon Face and Other Stories is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy. The story follows the nameless protagonist and his irrational hatred for John Claverhouse, a man with a "moon face." The protagonist clearly states that his hatred for him is irrational, and says: "Why don't we like it? Ah, we don't know why; we only know that we don't like it. We were upset, that's all. And so I with John Claverhouse ". The protagonist is obsessed with Claverhouse, hates his face, his laughter, all his life. The protagonist observes that Claverhouse engages in illegal dynamite fishing and hatches a plan to kill Claverhouse. The protagonist teaches a dog, Bellona, to do one thing and one thing only, recovery, with an emphasis on recovering water and bringing the stick to the thrower no matter where they are.Claverhouse shows up with Bellona before her next trout fishing trip. The protagonist watches from a distance with joy when Claverhouse lights a stick of dynamite and throws it into the water. Bellona, trained to recover, searches for the explosive. Claverhouse flees the dog uselessly until "just as she caught up with him, he strode forward, and she jumped with her nose on his knee, there was a sudden flash, an explosion of smoke,
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.
"Moon-Face" is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902. It explores the subject of extreme antipathy.
Moon-Face and Other Stories is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident. The Leopard Man's Story is a short mystery story about the ingenious murder of "King" Wallace, a fearless lion-tamer as told by the "Leopard Man", a saddened leopard trainer who bears visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposes his daring profession.Other stories included are: Local Color, Amateur Night, The Minions of Midas, The Shadow and the Flash, All Gold Canyon, and Planchette.
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.
Moon-Face & Other Stories' is a collection of American novelist, journalist and social activist Jack London. He lived form 1876 to 1916. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide fame and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
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Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Kempton-Wace Letters" is an epistolary novel written by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. It consists of philosophical thoughts on love and relationships, written as a series of letters between two men, young scientist Herbert Wace, and a poet Dane Kempton. "Moon-Face and Other Stories" is a collection that contains many wonderful stories like “The Leopard Man's Story,” “Local Colour,” “Amateur Night,” and others
"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--