Jack London

Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?

To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged individuals, such as the Malemute Kid face the violence of man and nature during the Gold Rush Days. Also included are short masterpieces

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In Call of the Wild, Buck, a domesticated dog, is stolen from his home in California and sold into sled dog slavery during the 1890s Klondike gold rush in Alaska. Forced to shed the comforts of civilization, he reverts to more primitive instincts and emerges as the leader of the pack. White Fang, published before Call of the Wild, is the companion novel about a wild wolf dog who is adopted by a human and eventually domesticated.

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This 100th Anniversary Edition presents the timeless tale of Humphrey Van Weyden, pressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, led by the brutal, enigmatic captain Wolf Larsen. This volume also includes four of London's acclaimed short stories.

"Un marinero de veinte años, fuerte, guapo y curtido, con un historial de delincuencia y trabajo rudo, es invitado casi por accidente a cenar en un hogar pequeño burgués y queda fascinado ante lo que sus ojos le presentan como cultura y civilización. La muchacha que lo acoge piensa que debe salvarlo ""de la maldición del ambiente en que había nacido"" e incluso ""de sí mismo a pesar de sí mismo""."

Experience the trials and hardships of a beloved writer's life in this InAudio production of Jack London's memoir, The Road. Jack London is primarily known for his novels and short stories that center the natural world. The Road is a more personal story and takes readers through London's experiences in poverty in the late 1800s, which was the time of the largest economic depression in the United States to that day. London writes about his experiences...

Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state - a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians - the western world's brutalized workers - assumed power everywhere. Over the space of a few decades, all learning has been lost....

Consists of the following eight Jack London short stories: To Build a Fire (1908 Version), Lost Face, The Law of Life, Love of Life, An Adventure in the Upper Sea, A Nose for the King, An Odyssey of the North, and A Thousand Deaths.

In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London so often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In The Whale Tooth, a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathen" on Melanesia.

London's strength of utterance is at its height in these stories, which are painstakingly well-constructed. Brown Wolf and Other Short Stories includes four of Jack London's most fascinating tales: "Brown Wolf," "Just Meat," "A Day's Lodging," and "Amateur Night."