The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
Unable to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide.London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish-in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or ...
The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated ...
This text begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over 100 accounts of individual health foods and dietary supplements.
The book includes discussion of Michael Howard's conflict with the judges, miscarriages of justice, the Criminal Justice Act, and the effects of the anti-trade union legislation of the 1980s.