Books by Jack London

Book SynopsisBorn in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang - half-dog, half-wolf - is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are the distant memories of affection and love. Will this fiercely independent creature of the wild learn to trust man again?

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Book SynopsisPart St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, Buck is a sturdy crossbreed canine accustomed to a comfortable life as a family dog -- until he''s seized from his pampered surroundings and shipped to Alaska to be a sled dog. There, the forbidding landscape is as harsh as life itself during the gold rush of the 1890s. Forced to function in a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival, Buck adapts quickly. Traces of his earlier existence are obliterated and he reverts to his dormant primeval instincts, encountering danger and adventure as he becomes the leader of a wolf pack and undertakes a journey of nearly mythical proportions. Superb details, taken from Jack London''s firsthand knowledge of Alaskan frontier life, make this classic tale of endurance as gripping today as it was over a century ago. One of literature''s most popular and exciting adventure stories, The Call of the Wild will enrich the reading experience of youngsters, and rekindle fond memories of a favorite among

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Book SynopsisThe Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford!Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life

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Book SynopsisThe Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life—and long stretches in a straitjacket—by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London’s friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author’s most complex and original works. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is “written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty.”This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.

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Book SynopsisThis Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers. The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog’s sudden entry into the wild and the education necessary for his survival in the ways of the wolf pack. Like many of London’s stories, this one is inspired by the early deprivations of his own pathetically short life: the primitive conditions of life as an oyster pirate in San Francisco; the restless existence of a hobo; the isolation of a prison inmate; the exertion of a laborer in the Oakland slums; and the frustration of a failed prospector for gold in t

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Book SynopsisRevisit one of the great adventure novels and classics of animal literature—now with a foreword by E.L. Doctorow One of the greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time and remains widely read throughout the world. His work is characterized by thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often manifests itself through violence. The Call of the Wild, perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog’s sudden entry into the wild and his education in survival among the wolves. Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative texts drawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introduced by today’s most distinguished scholars and writers. Each book features a detailed chronology of the author’s life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes. The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from Jack London: Novels and Stories, volume number 6 in The Library of America series. It is joined in the series by a companion volume, number 7, Jack London: Novels and Social Writings.

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Book SynopsisSe aceleraba el ritmo cardíaco y aumentaba la temperatura corporal. Después aparecía la erupción escarlata, que se extendía como un reguero de pólvora por la cara y por el cuerpo.En 2013 estalla en las principales ciudades de la Tierra una peste fulminante que se propaga con rapidez hasta el último rincón habitado. No hay para ella antídotos conocidos; en cuestión de días, el vano éxodo de los pobladores vacía las ciudades, devastadas por el pillaje, los incendios y la violencia. Con el paso del tiempo, unos pocos supervivientes van formando pequeñas comunidades mientras a su alrededor una vegetación asilvestrada, sin control, ahoga las zonas antes cultivadas, y los animales domésticos, con garras y dientes, tratan de asegurarse un lugar en el nuevo orden zoológico.Sesenta años después de la tragedia, el último super-viviente de la peste ?entonces joven profesor universitario y ahora anciano de casi noventa años? intenta al final de su vida transmitir algo de experiencia y sabiduría a sus nietos casi salvajes, evocando un mundo que ya nadie sabe que ha perdido. La Peste Escarlata (1912), un clásico memorable sobre la fragilidad de la civilización, inauguró el género de novela catástrofe y dejó su huella en libros tan notables como La Tierra permanece (1949), de George R. Stewart, y La carretera (2006), de Cormac McCarthy. Las ilustraciones realizadas para esta edición por el gran artista argentino Luis Scafati añaden una dimensión onírica, a los horrores de ese futuro apocalíptico imaginado por Jack London.

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