Author: Jack London
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Reluctant Poet, Inc.
Published: 04/09/2024
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories
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.
Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.
This novella from Jack London will make you feel sweaty, itchy, and grimy in just the first two pages. Set on the island of 19th Century Guadalcanal, a naturalist on a cruise gets intrigued while on shore by an alien noise, almost like a beckoning bellow, coming from the mainland, but he gets separa......more
Un naturalista impegnato nello studio della fauna di Guadalcanal viene incuriosito da un suono celestiale che percorre tutta l’isola e spinto dalla voglia di conoscerne l’origine si addentra nel folto della foresta dove inizierà per lui la fine, i cacciatori di teste e la malaria lo attendono ma con......more
You finally set eyes upon your destination after months at sea: The island of Guadacanal. A lush, green paradise--or so it seems. For as you and your party leave the beach and broach the "jungle heart", in search of the source of an alluring yet alien melody, suddenly your guide falls to the ground.......more
So strange, and bizarre especially coming Jack London, The Red One is an intriguing a little story about sacrifice. It was somewhat vague, but very imaginative and mystical. I enjoyed it, as I have many other tales by this great American author.......more
Very unlike any Jack London works I've ever read. Has a lot of elements of sci-fi (mostly in the titular The Red One) that make it unique to the rest of the London catalogue but it makes the collection of 4 short stories all that more interesting.......more