Jack London

The Call of the Wild is a classic of young adult literature, and this edition provides a wealth of information on the work's literary and cultural backgrounds. A best-seller from the moment of its publication, Jack London's ""The Call of the Wild"" (1903) is about Buck, a big mongrel who is shipped from his comfortable life in California to Alaska, where he must adapt to the harsh life of a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. Over the past hundred years London's 'dog story' has proved to have the enduring and universal appeal of the great classic. It has been translated into more than eighty languages and is one of the best-loved works of fiction in all of world literature. This is the only edition with appendices. It includes material on the North, Darwinism, and the history of psychology.

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The Iron Heel treads upon the faces of the poor. Determined to crush the working class at any cost, the brutal dictatorship incites a paranoid atmosphere of witch-hunting hysteria, employing gangs of thugs to stifle free speech. Avis Everhard, wife of a labor leader, narrates this gripping novel. In moving terms, she reveals the wretched poverty that props up aristocratic wealth and recounts the desperate struggles of revolutionaries against the insidious rise of the Iron Heel. George Orwell hailed this prescient tale as -a truer prophecy of the future than either Brave New World or The Shape of Things to Come.- Written more than a century ago, Jack London's harrowing vision of class warfare and a totalitarian state anticipates the development of fascism, the spread of terrorism, and the oppressive forces of government surveillance and authority. A short novel with remarkable depth, it continues to resonate with modern readers as both a satire and a warning.

"Belyj Klyk" - odin iz naibolee izvestnykh rasskazov Dzheka Londona. Eto trogatelnaja, pouchitelnaja istorija, kotoraja prizyvaet nikogda ne sdavatsja i sledovat za svoej mechtoj, nesmotrja na vse trudnosti zhizni. Otets Belogo Klyka - volk, mat - napolovinu volchitsa, napolovinu sobaka. On vynuzhden zhit po "zakonu dobychi": esh - ili sedjat tebja samogo. On vstrechaetsja s ljudmi, i s etogo momenta ego zhizn menjaetsja navsegda... Ego zhdut surovaja shkola zhizni i nelegkie ispytanija, no takzhe dobrota i ljubov ljudej, kotoroj tak khochetsja verit. "Medvezhonok Dzhonni. Lesnye istorii" - eta kniga pereneset vashego rebenka v mir zhivotnykh, gde on najdet sebe novykh druzej: zabavnogo medvezhonka, smelykh i gordykh volkov, khitrykh ryzhikh plutov-lisov, besstrashnogo krolika i drugikh zverjat, kotorye popadajut v raznye istorii. Zamechatelnye rasskazy Ernesta Seton-Tompsona polny ljubvi i sochuvstvija. Oni uchat dobromu i berezhnomu otnosheniju k zhivotnym i prirode. Obe knigi prokhodjat v 4-7 klassakh. Izdanija polnostju sootvetstvujut normam i trebovanijam GOST RF.

Stolen from his life of luxury, Buck finds himself in the frozen Yukon Territory as part of a team of sled dogs. Half-starved and cruelly treated, Buck must endure hardship beyond anything he's experienced before. And through it all, he hears the call of wild beckoning him - playing on his most primitive animal instincts.

The 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