Jack London

This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still a fascinating read today. Contents include: The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, "Yah Yah Yah ", The Heathen, The Terrible Solomans, The Inevitable White Man, and The seed if McCoy.... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

'Big things are happening secretly all around,' says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel "The Iron Heel," excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, "The Radical Jack London" establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century.

One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of adventure vividly capture the struggle to survive against the forces of nature by both men and animals, and often their retreat to a primitive state in the face of death. While these tales brought him the most fame, London also wrote stories that showed his insight into the lives of people who worked at sea, and they areas wonderful as any of his work. The stories in this collection show the wide range of Jack London's storytelling talents, and they continue to thrill readers today just as they have for generations.

Teachers have found The Call of the Wild--from the very earliest days of its publication in 1903--to be a novella rich in instructional possibilities in history, geography, and ethics as well as literature. In this resource book for teachers, Daniel Dyer provides an array of activities--traditional and nontraditional--to accommodate a wide range of students, teachers, schools and communities. Dyer's instructional ideas will stimulate exploration of such subjects as California and Klondike history and geography; tranportation by rail, ferry, steamship, and dog teams; techniques of gold mining; breeds of dogs; and subarctic flora and fauna--as well as the novel's great literary themes.

Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other - and to all their fellow creatures? This collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel The Call of the Wild; such famous stories as "Love of Life," "To Build a Fire," and "All Gold Canyon"; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters.

Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. From his birth in San Francisco in 1876 until his death in 1916, he lived a life rich with experiences and emotional intensity. Factory worker at 14; able-bodied seaman at 17; hobo and convict at 18; "Boy Socialist" of Oakland at 19; Klondike argonaut at 21; the "American Kipling" at 24; renowned author, social crusader, journalist, and war correspondent at 28; world traveler and adventurer at 31; prize-winning stockbreeder and scienfitic farmer at 35; self-made millionaire by the time of his death at 40: the facts became a legend in London's own lifetime. London dominated the literary marketplace during the first decade of the twentieth century; scarcely a month passed without his writing appearing in the nation's leading magazines. In less than 20 years, he produced some 500 nonfiction pieces, 200 short stories, and 19 novels (over 50 books in all), on such varied subjects as agronomy, alcoholism, astral projection, big business, ecology, economics, gold-hunting, penal reform, political corruption, prizefighting, seafaring, socialism, war, and wildlife. Of those books, at least three (The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf) have become world classics. London is America's most widely translated author (into more than 80 langauges), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history. Comprising 1,557 carefully annotated letters, this three-volume works is the first full-scale, comprehensive collection of London's correspondence, more than doubling the number of his letters previously in print. It illuminates nearly every facet of london's complex genius and meteoric career, from the early years of his literary apprenticeship, through his rise to success and fame, and, finally to the legal entanglements and failing health of his last years. The image that emerges from London's letters is of an unpretentious, often sensitive human being, extraordinarily open and sometimes brutally candid. He was capable of writing deeply moving, poetic love letters, but he was also capable, when writing to or about those he considered enemies, of a dark bitterness and vicious invective. Like much ofhis published work, many of his letters are simply good reading, written with his characteristic verve and blunt wit. This edition is lavishly illustrated, including 112 photoraphs, most of them from the London family albums and many published for the first time, facsimiles of letters and autograph inscriptions in books, cartoons and drawings, and three maps.

"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ... The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about." Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- "while frightfully primitive" -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.

Barcoll , cercando ancora di resistere al freddo morso della morte. Hann staula ist, enn a reyna a halda aftur af s r kalda bit dau ans. Aveva gi visto situazioni simili, ma sempre dalla parte dei vincitori. Hann haf i s etta ur, en alltaf fr sigurvegaranum. Ora era dalla parte perdente; lo sconfitto; la preda; la morte. N var hann taparahli inni; sigra i; br in; dau i. Buck si prepar al colpo finale, mentre il cerchio dei cani si faceva sempre pi stretto. Buck hringdi kringum sig til a hlj ta s asta h ggi , hundahringurinn r sti s r n r. Poteva sentire i loro respiri caldi; erano pronti a uccidere. Hann fann heitan andardr tt eirra; tilb in til dr ps. Cal il silenzio; tutto era al suo posto; il tempo si era fermato. gn sl ; allt var s num sta ; t minn haf i st vast. Persino l'aria fredda tra loro si congel per un ultimo istante. Jafnvel kalda lofti milli eirra fraus eina s ustu stund.

U kazhdogo naroda est svoi nepovtorimye natsionalnye osobennosti, kotorye skladyvajutsja vekami, na protjazhenii ego istoricheskogo razvitija pod vlijaniem mnozhestva samykh raznoobraznykh faktorov. Konechno, natsionalnyj kharakter - ponjatie mnogogrannoe. Vklad amerikanskogo naroda v obschechelovecheskuju kulturu, nauku, tekhniku, iskusstvo ogromen, ego nelzja pereotsenit. No, pomimo blagotvornogo, pozitivnogo, bezuslovno, est i strashnyj razrushitelnyj vklad. Zhestokie dejanija po otnosheniju k indejtsam, negram i drugim narodam sovershalis pri dobrovolnom uchastii shirokikh sloev rjadovykh amerikantsev i ne mogli ne ostavit glubokikh otmetin na ikh natsionalnom kharaktere. My khotim posmotret na negativnye projavlenija natsionalnogo kharaktera amerikanskogo naroda glazami vydajuschikhsja amerikanskikh pisatelej, kotorye, bezuslovno, ljubili svoe otechestvo i svoj narod i skorbeli o ego nedostatkakh i porokakh. Nesomnenno, ikh vzgljad obladaet osobym avtoritetom, siloj, obektivnostju i pozvolit otvetit na vopros, pochemu amerikanskij narod neodnokratno projavljal takuju zhestokost v istorii? Perevodchiki: Gurova Irina Gavrilovna, Soloveva Julija, Bernshtejn Inna Maksimovna

V knigu voshlo samoe izvestnoe proizvedenie amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona - povest "Belyj Klyk" o prikljuchenijakh polupsa-poluvolka. Geroi Londona prokhodjat surovye ispytanija, vyzhivajut tam, gde mozhet vyzhit tolko samyj silnyj, i vykhodjat pobediteljami iz nelegkoj skhvatki s samoj prirodoj.