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A man with no name follows a wandering path into the frozen Klondike. And here, deep in the heart of God's country, he is forced to pit his will, mind, and spirit against the forces of Mother Nature herself.

Jack London’s Call of the Wild is a beautiful tale of Buck, a house dog torn from the comforts of hearth and home in sunny California and thrust into the unforgiving wild. Through Buck, London takes us on a journey where the shackles of civilization are left behind, leading us to a simultaneously unknown and familiar past. Forgotten senses are awakened and survival is key. The story awakens in us something primal - the desire to be truly free.

An entertaining selection of short stories including 'An Odyssey of the North' by Jack London, 'A Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens and 'After the Race' by James Joyce.

Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself the captive voyager aboard the Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. The desperate character of Van Weyden's voyage is defined by the fact that he is out of his element, in unimaginable peril, and the slave of this cynical and wild soul, Larsen. Almost immediately, the slave plots his freedom - and must confront the weakness in his soul, mind and body.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja znamenityj roman "Morskoj volk" amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916), o kapitane shhuny Prizrak Volke Larsone, strannoj lichnosti: bezzhalostnom, grubom, sil'nom cheloveke i v to zhe vremja svoeobraznom filosofe... Glavnyj geroj Hjemfri Van-Vejden, spasjonnyj s zatonuvshego parohoda jekipazhem promyslovoj shhuny, perezhivaet mnogo trudnostej i unizhenij v bor'be s morem i nepredskazuemym harakterom kapitana, po pravu nosjashhego prozvishhe Volk Larsen.

"Deti moroza" - sbornik rasskazov amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Opublikovan v 1902 godu, odin iz pervyh sbornikov, vyshedshih otdel'nymi izdanijami. Rasskazy sbornika posvjashheny zhizni amerikancev-zolotoiskatelej i korennyh zhitelej na dal'nem severe.

Welcome to the world of a lone prospector who simply wants a place to all his own and look for the 'yellow dirt'. Jack London's word pictures draw you to this place of beauty and deception. The miner's character endears you to this slightly eccentric man. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

At fifty degrees below zero, your spit freezes instantly upon hitting the ground. At seventy-five below zero, it freezes in mid-air. If you get wet at that temperature you need to know one thing, and know it very well - how to build a fire.

Born in the Yukon, White Fang is a Wolf, or mostly Wolf - his father was a Wolf, his mother was half dog, but for all intents and purposes it was a Wolf. He looked like Wolf, fought like a Wolf, and thought like a Wolf. Early in his cubhood he was captured by an Indian, and raised as a sled dog, the Wolf nearly beaten out of him, but not quite. Subjected to human brutality and a very little human kindness he becomes a deadly fighter until rescued by a wise and kindly man. A heartwarming story.

The book begins when Weyden's ship sinks in San Francisco harbor. Rescued by Larson, Weyden is forced to serve as cook's scullion. Larson's heads for the Bering Sea where Van Weyden finds human cruelty matched only by nature but he also finds something else when a young lady is also rescued by Larson.

"Il vagabondo delle stelle" del grande scrittore statunitense Jack London, racconta la storia di un professore, Darrell Standing...

Izdanie soderzhit znamenityj sbornik rasskazov "Hram gordyni" ( The House of Pride) vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916). Soderzhanie: Hram gordyni. Kulau-prokazhennyj. Proshhaj Dzhek. Aloha oje. Chun-a-chun. Sherif kony.

Rasskazy Dzheka Londona iz sbornika "Sila sil'nyh" (The Strength of the Strong), ob'edinjaet obshhaja tema - vnutrennie protivorechija v haraktere i sud'be sil'nyh lichnostej. Rasskazy Londona zastavljajut s neterpeniem sledit' za razvitiem dejstvija. No vnimanie chitatelja prikovano ne neozhidannymi povorotami sjuzheta, a dramatizmom situacii.

Povest' Belyj Klyk - jeto uvlekatel'noe povestvovanie o zhizni volka po klichke Belyj Klyk. Mnogo ispytanij vypalo na ego dolju prezhde, chem on vstretil nastojashhego druga, cheloveka, kotoryj spas emu zhizn'. I za dobro i zabotu serdce volka otvetilo predannoj ljubov'ju.

Izdanie vkljuchaet velikolepnyj sbornik rasskazov vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona o prikljuchenijah hudozhnika Kristofera Bell'ju vo vremja Klondajkskoj "zolotoj lihoradki" :Povest' o malen'kom cheloveke Kak veshali Kul'tus Dzhordzha Oshibka mirozdanija Jaichnaja afera Firma Tra-liNa chto sposobna zhenshhina.

"Bog ego otcov" - sbornik rasskazov amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Opublikovan v 1901 godu. Rasskazy sbornika posvjashheny zhizni na Aljaske vo vremena zolotoj lihoradki.

Spot was a good-looking dog and everyone in the Klondike wanted the canine - except the two men that owned him. They tried selling him, they tried leaving him behind, and Spot seemed content to keep them guessing how he was always able to find them. Adventure, humor, and a good dose of owner frustration populate this story from famed writer Jack London.

Jack London 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 lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: "The Whale Tooth", "To Build a Fire", "The House of Pride", and "The House of Mapuhi".

Jack London draws upon his own experiences of a long Klondike winter to tell the story of two men, complete opposites in almost every way, who break off from their gold-searching party to spend a long winter together in a remote cabin. Thinking it will be easier than pushing on further north with the rest of the party, they fight against the cold, dwindling supplies, endless days of complete darkness, encroaching madness, the ubiquitous "Fear of the North", and ultimately, each other.

The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man.