#jacklondon

[victorianchap]

🔸 Homeless sleepers under Tower Bridge London.1902. Photographed by Jack London. #victorianchaps #london🇬🇧 #retro #jacklondon #vintage #victorian #edwardian #towerbridge #1900s #goodolddays #badoldtimes #homeless #history #pastlives https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGDeoCD3Cb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leblogdeciccio]

"La sua natura bramava l'amore. Era un'esigenza fisiologica del suo organismo. Eppure aveva dovuto farne a meno, e questa rinuncia l'aveva indurito. Non aveva mai saputo di aver bisogno d'amore. Semplicemente, vedendone gli effetti, aveva pensato che fosse bello, e nobile, e splendido."

Jack London in "Martin Eden"

[illinoisrbml]

☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? Season's greetings from the RBML team! #specialcollections #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild #medievalmanuscript #milton #ptolemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ6MkFJd7M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[golge-gezgin]

Hiking Ankara 157 : Beypazarı - Harmancık - Fasıl - Başağaç

Gölgegezgin, seyahat, gezi, travel, trip, trekking, hiking, running, camping, backpacker, ankara, Beypazarı, harmancık, fasıl, başağaç,

Rastgele ve gamsız bir hayatımız vardı. Çok az plan yapar, bunların da çok azını uygulardık. Acıktığımızda karnımızı doyurur, susadığımızda su içer, yırtıcı düşmanlarımızdan kaçar, geceleri mağaramıza sığınır, kalan zamanımızı da oyunla geçirirdik.

( Jack London, Adem’ den Önce, 1906 )

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[ Ankara, Beypazarı, Harmancık, 06.04.2022 ]

[paigebbooks]

I struggled with this classic. Normally I love myself a good Classic Novel but The Call of The Wild I struggled to pick up. There was never a need to read more and to read it physically bored me so I resorted to an audiobook to finish it. I kept telling myself the writing gets better when I knew it didn't. I love books about the Klondike but this one made me wish I never laid eyes on it. I know I am probably pissing many off with my review of saying that this is not a great book. Classic lovers probably squabbling on how I couldn't e joy this artful novel. I just was bored. I did finish but I really was close to making this a Did Not Finish but I pulled myself through painfully.

There is rare times where I say the movie version is 10x better than the book but this is definitely one of those situations. The movie is better.

I found that chapters dragged on in one scene making the reading slow. This is a short book so should be a quick read and all I could find is that it was a struggle to read a sentence. It took me an hour to read 6 pages. How this book is a classic will always boggle my mind because I find other classic books are 20x better than this one is. The writing was poor, the grammar worse, and really, felt like there really wasn't much of a story. Yes Buck yerns for the wild life with freedom. It was most obvious in the first 10 pages but to go on another 100 pages making sure in every sentence the reader understands this......it brings the reader away from the literature.

I definitely suggest never reading this but it is a good pallette cleanser.

[grandboute]

Jack London - Le vagabond des étoiles Encore une superbe pépite exhumée et rééditée par les éditions #libertalia et traduite par l'excellent Philip Mortimer ! Superbe travail pour porter cet ouvrage à notre connaissance, Merci @editionslibertalia #prison #peineDeMort #universCarceral #jackLondon #playdoyer #enfermement #cruaute #combat #resistnce #isolement #philipmortimer #traducteur #libertaliaedition #metaphysique #denonciation #pouvoir https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0ZBsngK5A/?igshid=1nwlp1ui9btz7

[lswieckitay]

"He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars." -Jack London #rufskin #ruflife #mensfashion #denim #jeans #whitejeans #style #fashion #lifestyle #photography #artphotography #art #artist #quote #jacklondon #homme #wanderlust #mothernature #life #beauty #waves #expression #peace #love #lovelast (at Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT75TDwB__P/?utm_medium=tumblr

[luigidelia]

Non ci fermiamo!!! Le date di dicembre (#Assisi #Puglia #Roma): ∞ 2 dicembre - CAMMELLI A BARBIANA, Don Milani e la sua scuola Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi (PE) per CEI - Conferenza Episcopale Italiana ∞ 3 dicembre, h 21 - NON ABBIATE PAURA, Grand Hotel Albania Teatro comunale Rossini, Gioia del Colle (BA) per SIC! ProgettAzioni Culturali "Vite che (non) sono la tua" - al mattino del 3 e 4 per le scuole superiori ∞ 5 dicembre, h 18 - TARZAN RAGAZZO SELVAGGIO Teatro Kismet Teatri di Bari https://www.teatridibari.it/teatro-ragazzi/ con Survival International Italia ∞ 12 dicembre, h 18 - TARZAN RAGAZZO SELVAGGIO Cittadella degli Artisti, Molfetta (BA) https://www.teatridibari.it/.../tarzan-ragazzo-selvaggio-2/ con Survival International Italia ∞ 23 dicembre, h 18 - ZANNA BIANCA Teatro Comunale di Ruvo di Puglia (BA) per Compagnia La Luna nel Letto ∞ 29 dicembre - ZANNA BIANCA #VoceParole #teatroIndia Roma Foto Paolo Cortesi Eliana Manca Claudia Simone