Hearts of Three. Sea Wolf. Son of the Sun

Jack London became famous as the author of novels and stories about exciting and dangerous journeys. This collection includes three works about strong, determined, and resolute individuals. The adventure novel "Hearts of Three" (1915) was considered by Jack London as the beginning of a new direction in his work and a source of authorial pride. The main character of the book, Francis Morgan, the son of a deceased millionaire and a descendant of the famous 17th-century pirate Henry Morgan, goes to Panama in search of pirate treasure and encounters... Henry Morgan, his distant relative, who soon becomes his companion in dangerous adventures and a rival in love for the beautiful and bold Leonsia. The writer poured all his love for the sea into the novel "Sea Wolf" (1904). There are many magnificent marine landscapes filled with the wind of sails and dangerous, harsh sea work. The adventure romance in "Sea Wolf" coexists with Nietzschean ethics: Wolf Larsen, the cynical and cruel captain of the fishing schooner, recognizes only strength and knows no compassion. And at the same time, he is a longing lonely soul seeking solace in Shakespeare and Tennyson... The cycle "Son of the Sun" (1912) consists of eight separate stories, but they are united by one character. The brave adventurer David Griff travels across the South Sea not so much for profit as for the love of risk, as the tropics hide dangers one does not expect from paradise islands and serene azure seas.