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“The Cruise of the Dazzler” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school,...

“The Sea-Wolf” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. It tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist — an intellectual man named Humphrey Van Weyden — forced to become tough and self-reliant...

“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager...

Dorastanie wcale nie jest łatwe dla Carolyn Arundel. Kiedy jej Mama Hildemara przechodzi okres kwarantanny po przebytej gruźlicy, zamknięta w swojej sypialni, Carolyn nawiązuje szczególnie mocną więź ze swoją Babcią Martą, która przeprowadza się do ich domu. W miarę rosnącego napięcia pomiędzy Hildie i jej matką, Carolyn przyjmuje winę za ten stan na siebie. Kiedy Hildie wraca do pracy, a Marta wyjeżdża,...