Smoke Bellew
14.99 €
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Smoke Bellew
14.99 €
The collection includes twelve stories by the famous American writer Jack London about brave pioneers, hunters and gold diggers. These stories form the most famous cycle of his works. The texts are translated by Lydia and Nikolai Chukovsky and Nora Gal. The stories about the harsh and dangerous life in Alaska are illustrated in this book with magnificent drawings by two American artists: Anton Otto Fischer and Patrick Monahan.
Jack London published his first essay at the age of seventeen. Before that, he had time to bread hardship. After the death of his stepfather, the young man's family was almost without means of subsistence. Jack worked as a newspaper delivery boy and washed floors in beer halls. After school he worked in a canning factory, fished for oysters and rubbed calluses on a fishing boat off the coast of Japan. Poverty followed him around for a long time. University of California, where ambitious and talented Jack managed to enter, had to soon drop out for a banal reason - the money to study catastrophically lacking. London's attempts to get out of poverty led him in 1897 in Alaska, where at this time began a gold rush. A year later Jack returned to San Francisco without gold, with scurvy and with new vivid impressions, which ultimately proved more valuable than gold sand and nuggets. After returning from Alaska London decided to seriously engage in literature and succeeded in this field. The heroes of his stories - people resistant, harsh and at the same time not devoid of romantic features. He encountered such pioneers in reality and became a pioneer himself, but not in the vastness of Alaska, but in literature. Before London, no one had ever written about the struggle for life in such a way. The book is decorated with drawings by two American artists: Anton Otto Fischer and Patrick John Monahan. Fischer was born in Germany. At the very end of the nineteenth century, he became a merchant seaman and repeatedly crossed the Atlantic. It is not surprising that later the marine theme took a special place in his drawings. The basics of artistic education Fisher received from the famous American illustrator Arthur Frost. Then there was a study in France, where his mentor in the Parisian Academy Julian became a painter Jean-Paul Laurens. Returning to the United States, Fisher opened his own studio. He began collaborating with various magazines and book publishers, creating many illustrations for works by Robert Stevenson, Jules Verne, Herman Melville and Jack London. Unlike Fisher, Patrick John Monahan was born in the United States. He began working part-time at an Iowa newspaper early on. After looking at the drawings of a local cartoonist, Patrick decided to become an artist himself. Five years he polished his skills at the Academy of Art in his hometown of Des Moines. In 1907, Monahan moved to New York, opened an art studio on Eighth Avenue, and soon his illustrations began to appear in many metropolitan magazines. In 1924 he left New York and moved to New Jersey. There, on thirty-two acres of land, Patrick established an art studio, where he worked for the rest of his life.
Jack London published his first essay at the age of seventeen. Before that, he had time to bread hardship. After the death of his stepfather, the young man's family was almost without means of subsistence. Jack worked as a newspaper delivery boy and washed floors in beer halls. After school he worked in a canning factory, fished for oysters and rubbed calluses on a fishing boat off the coast of Japan. Poverty followed him around for a long time. University of California, where ambitious and talented Jack managed to enter, had to soon drop out for a banal reason - the money to study catastrophically lacking. London's attempts to get out of poverty led him in 1897 in Alaska, where at this time began a gold rush. A year later Jack returned to San Francisco without gold, with scurvy and with new vivid impressions, which ultimately proved more valuable than gold sand and nuggets. After returning from Alaska London decided to seriously engage in literature and succeeded in this field. The heroes of his stories - people resistant, harsh and at the same time not devoid of romantic features. He encountered such pioneers in reality and became a pioneer himself, but not in the vastness of Alaska, but in literature. Before London, no one had ever written about the struggle for life in such a way. The book is decorated with drawings by two American artists: Anton Otto Fischer and Patrick John Monahan. Fischer was born in Germany. At the very end of the nineteenth century, he became a merchant seaman and repeatedly crossed the Atlantic. It is not surprising that later the marine theme took a special place in his drawings. The basics of artistic education Fisher received from the famous American illustrator Arthur Frost. Then there was a study in France, where his mentor in the Parisian Academy Julian became a painter Jean-Paul Laurens. Returning to the United States, Fisher opened his own studio. He began collaborating with various magazines and book publishers, creating many illustrations for works by Robert Stevenson, Jules Verne, Herman Melville and Jack London. Unlike Fisher, Patrick John Monahan was born in the United States. He began working part-time at an Iowa newspaper early on. After looking at the drawings of a local cartoonist, Patrick decided to become an artist himself. Five years he polished his skills at the Academy of Art in his hometown of Des Moines. In 1907, Monahan moved to New York, opened an art studio on Eighth Avenue, and soon his illustrations began to appear in many metropolitan magazines. In 1924 he left New York and moved to New Jersey. There, on thirty-two acres of land, Patrick established an art studio, where he worked for the rest of his life.
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