1001 Best of Jack London

• THE UNEXPECTED by JACK LONDON

  Why You Should Read... The Unexpected by Jack London Short review by Evan C. Lewis “The Unexpected is true to its name, full of twists and turns.” The Unexpected is true to its name, full of twists and turns. But these surprises don’t just come in the form of dramatic plot events, they also come in an unexpected change of tone. Because, while in the beginning, the story seems set to become a thriller, it instead becomes a literary piece on morality and willpower. This is the best of Jack London using hardship to test his protagonist. Rather than the central tension revolving around the protagonist fighting her adversity, it revolves around her struggle to keep to her morals while doing so. She makes an ethical decision to do something the right way, despite everything pushing her to take the easy way out. It’s interesting, perhaps not very surprising, that this narrative choice would occur in one of the very few stories of the earliest 20th century with a female protagonist. Similar to Jack London’s survival adventures such as To Build a Fire and Love of Life, the story is filled with exhaustion, hunger, cold and pain. But in The Unexpected, it mostly takes place inside of a cabin with the forces behind the suffering, rather than being wind, snow, and sickness; being other people. The unexpected pushes forward an idea that life should be a struggle. As tumultuous and traumatising as the protagonist Edith’s life is shown to be, the introduction philosophises that it is a much more human, much more worthwhile life to lead than one of complacency. But the ending paints no clear picture, with no sign of heroic triumph or a return to safety. Life goes on, it seems to say. Whether you like it or not. “The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity.” - The Narrator   But the Great Unexpected was yet to come into her life and put its test upon her.

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• THE UNPARALLELED INVASION

  In this futuristic and frighteningly prescient short story, written by Jack London in 1906, America and its allies wage biological warfare on an overreaching China in 1976 using airships to drop glass tubes filled with a variety of plagues destined to destroy China's population of 500 million. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories from The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website:WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: [email protected] SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• THE BONES OF KAHEKILI by JACK LONDON

  A fascinating journey into early Hawaiian history mixing story with the legend of High Chief Kahekili who was the rival of Chief Kamehameha.Some believe Kahekili's bones are locatd in a shrine- others say they are part of the ocean.  This story builds to a climax near the end as we learn the fate of the great Maui Chief.   Enjoy our website at www.bestof1001stories.com

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• THE MADNESS OF JOHN HARNED by JACK LONDON

  A wealthy Ecuadorian landowner attends a bullfight with his American cousin and both see it differently...

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• THE LEOPARD MAN'S STORY by JACK LONDON

  Our narrator relates the time he tried to get a life story from a lion tamer and the man relates the time he witnessed a murder of another lion tamer by the jealous husband of one of the performers.   Join us whereevr great podcasts are found or at www.bestof1001stories.com.

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