London: 1942 books

Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories - 'Bâtard', 'Moon-Face', 'Brown Wolf', 'That...

FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Dystopian Plague Classic! The year is 2072, and the earth has been depopulated by a plague epidemic that struck in 2013. The victims of the scarlet plague are dead within an hour or less of the first symptoms appearing....

London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...

his book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories - Jane Austen: The Complete Novels - The Brontë Sisters: The Complete Novels - Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels - Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Classics Novels Collection - Arthur...

Before Adam", serialized by Jack London in 1906 and 1907 [1], is the little known story of a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine.The story is unique in that it offers an early, entertaining view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes...

"To Build a Fire and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of Jack London's most loved short stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: To The Man On The Trail, The White Silence, In A Far Country, The Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odyssey Of The North, The Law Of Life, The God Of...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley...

Beyaz Diş, yarı köpek bir anne ile kurt bir babanın yavrusu olarak dünyaya gelmiştir. Doğduğu andan itibaren farklılıklarının gölgesinde bir hayat sürmüştür. Jack London, bu kitapta düşmanlık, ahlak, güven, merhamet ve sevgi gibi kavramların üzerinde duruyor.

From man’s best friend to wild beasts, five of the most enduring tales of animals in literature—together in one collection for animal lovers of all ages. Animals as characters have played a significant part in literature, from Aesop’s ancient fables and the Garden of Eden story to contemporary...

Eight good stories by Jack London, about the people and places of the south Pacific in 1908. The prose is fine and spare most of the time, and never gets in the way of the tale. The places and the tales are memorable. There is not a great variety of character and setting; the eight stories...

Martin Eden by Jack London.

A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...

In the eighteenth century, the novel became established as a popular literary form all over Europe. Britain proved an especially fertile ground, with Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Burney as early exponents of the novel form. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel considers the...

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful...