Jack London fue un autor, periodista y activista social estadounidense, nacido el 12 de enero de 1876 en San Francisco, California. Es conocido principalmente por sus novelas "The Call of the Wild" (La llamada de la selva), "Sea Wolf" (Lobo de mar) y "White Fang" (Diente blanco), las cuales se desarrollan en la Fiebre del Oro de Klondike. London fue pionero en la ficción comercial en revistas y se convirtió en uno de los primeros autores estadounidenses en alcanzar fama e internacional y riqueza a través de su escritura.
Los experiencias de London en la Fiebre del Oro de Klondike y su trabajo como pirata de ostras, marinero, cazador de focas y vagabundo influyeron mucho en su escritura. Estuvo ampliamente autodidacta más allá de la escuela primaria debido a las dificultades financieras en su vida temprana. Sus experiencias personales sirvieron como base para la mayoría de las tramas de sus novelas. En la cima de su carrera, London fue el autor más popular y mejor pagado de su tiempo.
Además de ser autor, London también fue periodista, escritor de relatos cortos y activista social. Era miembro del grupo literario radical "The Crowd" en San Francisco y un defensor apasionado de la unionización, los derechos de los trabajadores y el socialismo. Sus obras a menudo abordaban estos temas, incluido su novela distópica "The Iron Heel" (El tacón de hierro), la exposición no ficticia "The People of the Abyss" (El pueblo del abismo) y "War of the Classes" (Guerra de clases).
Las obras más famosas de London, como "The Call of the Wild" y "White Fang", representan las luchas elementales de la vida para la supervivencia de una manera romántica. Se vio influido por personalidades populares de su tiempo, como Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, H.G. Wells y Thomas Henry Huxley. London murió el 22 de noviembre de 1916 y sus cenizas fueron enterradas en su propiedad en Glen Ellen, California.
Dogs of the Islands Books
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Jerry of the Islands
1917
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Michael Brother of Jerry
1917
Novelas independientes
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A Daughter of the Snows
1902
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Burning Daylight
1902
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The Kempton-Wace Letters
1903
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The Sea-Wolf
1904
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The Game
1905
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White Fang
1906
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Before Adam
1906
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Martin Eden
1909
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Theft
1910
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The Abysmal Brute
1911
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Adventure
1911
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Hearts of Three
1911
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Smoke Bellew
1912
14
The Valley of the Moon
1913
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The Star Rover
1914
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
1914
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Daughters of the Rich
1915
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The Little Lady of the Big House
1916
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The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
1963
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The Lodger
2015
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
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The Wisdom Of The Trail
1899
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The Man with the Gash
1900
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The God of His Fathers
1901
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The Cruise of the Dazzler
1902
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The Death of Ligoun
1902
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To Build a Fire
1903
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The Shadow and the Flash
1903
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How I Became a Socialist
1903
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The Marriage of Lit-Lit
1903
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Demetrios Contos
1903
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The Call of the Wild and Typhoon
1903
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What Life Means to Me
1905
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Love of Life
1905
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The Enemy of All the World
1907
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Flush of Gold
1907
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The Heathen
1908
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The Iron Heel
1908
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The Taste of the Meat
1910
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The Eternity of Forms
1910
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A Daughter of the Aurora/A Piece of Steak
1911
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The Scarlet Plague
1912
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The Jacket
1914
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At the Rainbow's End
1914
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When Alice Told Her Soul
1916
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Curious Fragments
1986
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The League of the Old Men
2004
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The Story of Keesh
2008
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The Chinago
2008
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To the Man on the Trail
2008
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A Thousand Deaths
2010
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Bulls
2013
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Confession
2013
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The Red One
2014
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The Men of the Forty Mile
2014
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Hoboes That Pass in the Night
2014
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The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen
2014
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The First Poet
2014
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The Hanging of Cultus George
2014
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A Flutter in Eggs
2014
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The King of Mazy May
2014
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Jack London - The Son of the Wolf
2017
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The Faith of Men
2017
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The Night Born
2019
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The Call of the Wild -
2019
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
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The Son of the Wolf
1900
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories
1900
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The Faith of Men and Other Stories
1902
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Children of the Frost
1902
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A Daughter of the Aurora
1902
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Amateur Night
1903
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The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories
1905
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
1905
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Brown Wolf and Other Stories
1906
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A Day's Lodging
1906
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
1906
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Brown Wolf
1906
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Moon-Face and Other Stories
1906
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The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
1907
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Aloha OE
1908
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
1908
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The Strength of the Strong
1909
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The Madness of John Harned
1909
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The Benefit of the Doubt
1910
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South Sea Tales (With: Tony Horwitz)
1911
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South Sea Tales
1911
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A Son of the Sun
1912
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The Yukon writings of Jack London
1912
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The House of Pride
1912
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The Night-Born and Other Stories
1913
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In Hawaii with Jack London
1916
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The Turtles of Tasman
1916
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The Human Drift
1917
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On the Makaloa Mat
1919
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The Bones of Kahekili
1919
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The Sun-Dog Trail And Other Stories
1951
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Jack London's California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings
1955
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White Fang, and Other Stories
1963
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The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories
1964
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Stories of Hawaii
1965
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The Call of the Wild and Other Stories
1965
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Tales of Hawaii
1965
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Tales of the North
1968
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The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London
1975
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The Unabridged Jack London
1981
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Klondike Tales
1982
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The Dream of Debs/Account of the San Francisco Cooks & Waiters Strike
1985
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Curious Fragments
1986
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Tales of the Pacific
1989
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The Collected Jack London
1991
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Five Great Short Stories
1992
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The Yukon Writings of Jack London
1996
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Northland Stories
1997
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Fantastic Tales
1998
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The Plays of Jack London
2000
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Jack London in Aloha-Land
2000
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Lost Face And Other Stories
2005
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Stories of Ships and the Sea
2006
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Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters
2006
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The Asian Writings of Jack London
2009
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San Francisco Stories
2010
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Sailing Ships and Other Adventures
2011
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Island Tales...
2012
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The Science Fiction of Jack London
2012
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Uncollected Stories
2013
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When God Laughs and Other Stories
2013
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'The Turtles of Tasman' and Other Stories
2013
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The Curious Fragment
2013
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'The Red One' and Other Stories
2013
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'The Strength of the Strong' and Other Stories
2013
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The Classic Works of Jack London
2014
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The Leopard Man's Story
2014
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The Complete Poetry of Jack London
2014
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Negore the Coward
2014
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Small-Boat Sailing
2014
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 1
2015
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 2
2015
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 3
2015
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The Poetical Works of Jack London
2015
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Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
2016
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Tales of the Klondyke
2016
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Jack London - Moon-Face & Other Stories
2016
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Jack London - The Science Fiction Stories - Volume 2
2017
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Lost Face.
2018
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Love Of Life And Other Stories
2019
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Love of Life & Other Stories Illustrated
2019
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Jack London Dog Stories
2019
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Jack London's Stories for Boys
2020
Libros de no ficción
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The People of the Abyss
1903
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The War of the Classes
1906
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The Cruise of the Snark
1907
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The Road
1907
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Revolution and Other Essays
1909
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John Barleycorn
1913
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Essays of Revolt
1926
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No Mentor But Myself
1978
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Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing
1981
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Our Hawaii
2015
Selected Shorts Books
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (With: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Jack London Anthologies
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The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
1921
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Great Tales of Action and Adventure
1958
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959
1959
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50 Great American Short Stories
1963
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A St. Nicholas Anthology
1969
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21 Great Stories
1969
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The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories
1976
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Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1
1983
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Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls
1985
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Mysterious Sea Stories
1987
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100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
1993
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The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark
2000
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The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
2007
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The Little Big Book of California
2005
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The Arctic
2007
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San Francisco Noir 2
2009
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50 Classic Novellas
2011
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The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
2011
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Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction