London: 1942 books

This is the First Edition.A collection of poetry written for Appalachian people, for the broken hearted, for single parents, for lovers, and for friends. This collections also presents color photos, including some beautiful work from a WV Photographer, Clayton Spangler. This unique book is certain, to have something for everyone.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outingmagazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike...

Martin Eden est un jeune marin au long cours. Sa vie est faite d'aventures, il aime la boisson, les filles, les bagarres. Jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Ruth Morse, jeune femme de la bonne bourgeoisie. Pour la séduire, il renonce à ses mauvaises habitudes, à ses mauvaises fréquentations. À force...

From Gina London, an award-winning veteran Cnn correspondent and author, comes a romantic, exotic, wacky and fun book about her young daughter and the adventures they have together! Set in Paris, Tuscany and the good old U.S. of A., this anthology of true exploits and conversations between...

The House of Pride, first published in 1912, is a collection of six short stories by Jack London, all of which take place in Hawaii. London traveled to Hawaii on at least three occasions, and it became the predominant setting for the writings of the second half of his career. He loved the climate...

This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism...

London L. Gore is a World War II veteran serving front-line duty in a Sherman tank with the 5th Armored Division after the Utah Beach landing. Living through the shelling on the battlefield was like being in a never-ending thunderstorm surrounded by unrelenting lightning strikes. After the war, London...

A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Call of the Wild is an emotional rollercoaster of a novel set during the late 19th century Klondike Gold Rush. The central character is Buck, an Alaskan sled dog who is forced to adjust to the...

London, déguisé en clochard, se perd pendant trois mois dans les bas-fonds de Londres, et en rapporte ce témoignage terrifiant. Loin des avenues de l’aventure, mais au plus près des réalités d’un siècle qui, décidément, commençait sous de bien sinistres couleurs. Durant l’été 1902...

Le peuple de l’abîme Jack London Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire. Du même auteur, dans la collection Culture commune : Croc-blanc, L’Appel de...

Leading the UK track and field team to gold medal winning glory at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and again at Beijing in 2008 was enough for British Athletics to turn again to Walker and persuade him - the UK's greatest ever track and field athlete - out of retirement to save the nation from ignominy and...

The Abysmal Brute by Jack London About London: Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.

The Transformational Decade shows the transformation that took place in American life from the attack on the World Trade Center to the emergence of the Obama presidency. It is not a strict history, but rather snapshots of a decade that has fundamentally altered perceptions of the United States. In...