Moon-Face and Other Stories

Name: Moon-Face and Other Stories
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack London
ISBN: 9798874711634

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Peter Lerman

Published: 03/05/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories

Synopsis

Jack London—author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Sea Wolf—was among the most highly regarded and most successful writers of the early 20th century. This is a collection of eight of his best short stories:“Moon-Face”“The Leopard Man’s Story”“Local Color”“Amateur Night”“The Minions of Midas”“The Shadow and the Flash”“All Gold Canyon”“Planchette”

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 Peter Lerman

Peter Lerman is originally from New York City. Peter has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won an AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award® in 2020 for one of them. His specialty is nonfiction—biography, history, government and politics, business, science, medicine, and technology. In 2023 Peter recorded the first audiobook production of Upton Sinclair’s Boston: the Documentary Novel of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

The five stars are for the title story alone since I have not read the others but I have to note it here as perhaps the most perfected and grim account of human malice in Western literature, an extrapolation of what most people feel at fleeting moments taken to extreme and murderous ends. It is stori......more