Hearts of Three Annotated edition by Jack London Literature Fiction eBooks
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Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that can't help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later!
Hearts of Three Annotated edition by Jack London Literature Fiction eBooks
Indiana Jones like adventure. Lost treasure and a lost race. Not what you would expect from London. Starts off slow but reaches bullet train action in the next few chapters and just keeps on going.Product details
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Hearts of Three Annotated edition by Jack London Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I read this book when I was little. Since then, I have neither been able to forget it nor to find it. The book is especially ideal for teenagers/older children. Why is it out of print?
phenominal very realistic and has peril danger and riches beyond your wildest imagination you will find a lot of that in hearts of threw
This book was London's personal favorite. Inexplicably it never found a following in his own country, while abroad it has always been one of his most famous works. Finally there is an affordable edition of this fantastic, gripping adventure story.
It seems that lumps all reviews for the same title into the same basket, regardless of the publisher. The negative reviews all refer to publication other than the Gloria Mundi one, advertised on this page. If you want a quality product please make sure you get the Gloria Mundi edition. Indeed the book is wonderful.
Why is this book so difficult to find? Why hasn't it been re-printed? Who knows...
This book was extremely difficult to find for some time. I had a Russian translation of it.
The fact is that translations of this relatively unknown work by J. London, actually a novelization of a movie script by Charles Goddard, are in wide circulation, especially in Russia, where it has been one of a group of favourite books.
I myself have read it a several times, bot as a child, and as an adult. In that latter occasion I was reading more critically and it is my opinion that it has nothing less than "King Solomon's Mines" or other similar books, widely read by many... Romance, exotic location, colorful portraying of characters, magnificent villains, burning sun and glowing treasure, lovely señoritas, twists - all that in a shape of a gripping narrative in one of the best books by London I have ever read. Scholars specializing on the author's work may state that it is a lot different then other more popular of his works, but I don't think anyone could say that it's not top of its genre. You will enjoy it immensely!
EDITED it was finally reprinted in 2003 by Kessinger Publishing Co
I have been an enthusiastic reader of Jack London's work for 25 years, and have read about 3/4 of his writings. With the advent of the , and the easy availability of even his most obscure books, I have set myself the task of finishing his complete works. Never have I regretted that decision so much as when I undertook the grueling ordeal of reading Hearts of Three.
In his introduction to the work, London explains that this book was originally written as the scenario for a film serial by Charles Goddard, and London was hired to write a novelization of Goddard's story outline. It's hard to believe that an outline was ever written, for it reads as if London just made the book up as he went along. Though this may be a collaborative work, the reader need not fear that the book may not have enough London in it. This novel certainly bears the inimitable stamp of its famous author, particularly in its ever-present preoccupation with race.
Francis Morgan, a rich New York playboy, bored with the stock market, decides to venture down to Panama to search for the long lost treasure of his dead grandfather. Once he arrives, he meets a long lost cousin, Henry Morgan, a laid back beach comber. The two are the spitting image of one another, distinguishable only by the presence or absence of moustache, a plot device that provides all the entertainment value of a bad Jackie Chan or Jean Claude Van Damme movie. Both men fall in love with the same woman, Leoncia Solano, and the three set off together to find the treasure. By the way, Henry is wanted for murder, and an inordinate amount of time is spent freeing him from the authorities. Not until chapter 13 does the book finally become the sort of Indiana Jones-style adventure story that it purports to be. Eventually the treasure hunt runs its course, and in its final chapters the book devolves into a dull drama about stock trading.
If you were to summarize the action of each of the 29 chapters in two or three sentences, Hearts of Three might sound like an exciting book. Unfortunately, the narrative is horribly clogged up with pointless digressions, inane conversations, and London's questionable views on race. Each new character is introduced with a racial pedigree, then subsequently defined by the stereotype that accompanies that pedigree. More than one character laments that his bad fortune is the result of being punished by God for engaging in an interracial relationship. Of course, London makes it clear early on that Leoncia Solano is not really Spanish but adopted, thereby rendering it acceptable for the two Anglo Saxon heroes to woo her. Despite his fascination with race, his knowledge of Panamanian ethnography is a little sketchy. London uses the word "Maya" as a blanket term to encompass all Mesoamerican native peoples. One of the Mayan characters reads a quipu, or knotted string of cords, which was not a Mayan invention at all but rather an information transmittal device employed by the Inca.
London throws a lot of lowbrow slapstick humor into this book in an attempt to make it a crowd pleaser, yet he also wants to make it clear that he's an intellectual, so he has all the characters speak in flowery, poetic language, with literary references and Yoda-esque syntax. Hearts of Three is easily the worst London book I've ever read (though there are still a few out there I haven't touched yet). The only pleasure one derives from reading this novel is similar to that of witnessing a train wreck, or watching a horrible old movie that's "so bad it's good." Thankfully, this is one film concept that never made it to the silver screen.
So many mistakes, typos and lost symbols - it is very awful edition for reading.
Indiana Jones like adventure. Lost treasure and a lost race. Not what you would expect from London. Starts off slow but reaches bullet train action in the next few chapters and just keeps on going.
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