The House of Pride, and Other Tales o..., Jack London
The House of Pride, and Other Tales o..., Jack London
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The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2018

Synopsis

A departure from London’s normal tales of the frozen North, all of these tales take place in the islands of Hawaii. The tales deal with racial issues, family relationships, leprosy quarantines, missionaries, and the diverse people who make their homes on the beautiful Hawaiian islands.London traveled to Hawaii in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including an eight-month stay shortly before he died in 1916. He had a fondness for the islands that is apparent in the rich descriptions in these tales. Short stories in this collection: “The House of Pride”“Koolau the Leper”“Goodbye, Jack”“Aloha Oe”“Chun Ah Chun”“The Sheriff of Kona”

About Jack London

Jack London (1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Before making a living at his writing, he spent time as an oyster pirate, a sailor, a cannery worker, a gold miner, and a journalist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction writing. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during 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.” He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, including The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on October 12, 2021

I think that I may have read these stories years ago when I was in Hawaii. I don't remember any of them, though the one about the leper who refuses to be taken from his native Kauai to the leper colony on Molokai seemed familiar. Jack London was a master storyteller. He writes in a simple style, but......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on August 01, 2012

of course I am biased - but the stories about a people who hae been enveloped by American expansionism and the sufferings of the Hawaiian people from missionaries and leprosy are well told by Jack London - he is always my favorite author......more

Goodreads review by DJNana on November 14, 2021

Having known Jack London only from childhood readings of White Fang and Call of the Wild, I was not expecting him to be such a philosopher, a poet, prosaic, a keen observer of humanity. Across these six stories, London tackles the trappings of religion, the blessings and trials of family ties, coloni......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on December 12, 2021

En 1909 se publicó "La casa del orgullo", libro que contiene seis relatos cortos ambientados en las islas de Hawai. Las historias en general se centran en la relación entre la población autóctona y "el hombre blanco" que poco a poco se fue apoderando de todo el territorio. OPINIÓN: Jack London se ad......more

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