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Jack London' s two greatest novels, "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang"- originally intended as companions- are here compiled in one volume. "The Call of the Wild" centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within. "White Fang" tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vic...

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Two of Jack London's best-loved masterpieces, in their entirety." Call of the Wild tells a compelling tale of adventure during the Yukon Gold Rush, and fully captures the unquenchable spirit of Buck, a kidnapped dog trying to survive in the harshest of environments. Also set in Alaska, the powerful" White Fang follows the often savage life of the magnificent title character, a mix of wolf and dog.

Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy relationship between the Native Americans and whites ...

By turns an impoverished laborer, a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent in Mexico, a declared socialist, and a writer of enormous popularity the world over, Jack London was the author of brilliant works that reflect his ideas about twentieth-century capitalist societies while dramatizing them through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. His prose, always brisk and vigorous, rises in The People of the Abyss to italicized h...

A collection of Jack London stories, including When God Laughs, The Apostate, A Wicked Woman, "Just Meat", Created He Them, The Chinago, Make Westing, Semper Idem, A Nose for the King, The "Francis Spaight", A Curious Fragment, and A Piece of Steak.. Jack London (1876-1916), an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular ...

A collection of travel writings from the author of the classic novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In 1907, world-renowned writer Jack London, his wife, and two crew members set sail for the South Pacific aboard the Snark, a 45-foot yacht built specifically for the trip. In this account of their voyage, he details the beleaguered construction of the boat and the enterprise in it that followed, as the group departed from San Francisco a...

Millones de ejemplares leídos de las novelas de Jack London (San francisco, 1876-Glen Ellen, California, 1916) dan fiel testimonio de la aceptación que siempre ha tenido entre un público muy general. El hecho de que algunas de sus novelas hayan sido llevadas a la gran pantalla ha contribuido a popularizar las aportaciones del autor. En su intensa y conflictiva vida, como autor y como agitador político, hay algunos temas recurrentes: las relaci...

Written in 1908, this visionary novel about class struggle anticipates the political upheavals of the 1930s and beyond.

The full moon rose over Malaita and shone down on Berande. Nothing stirred in the windless air. From the hospital still proceeded the moaning of the sick. In the grass-thatched barracks nearly two hundred woolly-headed man-eaters slept off the weariness of the day's toil, though several lifted their heads to listen to the curses of one who cursed the white man who never slept. On the four verandas of the house the lanterns burned. Inside, betw...

Captivating tale of true adventures recounts, with wry good humor, the hardships of a two-year voyage aboard a diminutive and leaky craft. Enhanced with 119 original photographs.

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Von Abenteuer und Einsamkeit, von Freiheitsliebe und erbarmungslosem Überlebenskampf erzählt Jack London in seinen berühmten Alaska- und Südseegeschichten. Roger Willemsen, ein großer Bewunderer Jack Londons, hat für den vorliegenden Band die schönsten Texte zusammengestellt. In einem Vorwort bereist er den erzählerischen Kosmos Jack Londons und lädt dazu ein, diesen wunderbaren, literarisch oft unterschätzten Autor neu zu entdecken. Mit Date...

The Call of the Wild is an adapted Pre-intermediate Level reader written by Jack London. This book tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is suddenly stolen and sold to gold prospectors. In this new, hard-life, Buck has to call on his natural instincts to survive as he is now in the wild.