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Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.The Call of the Wild, written by Jack London, is an adventure novel set in the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. The novel follows the story of a domesticated dog named Buck, who is stolen from his home in California and sold as a sled dog in the Yukon Territory. Against all odds, Buck adapts to his hostile environment and thrives as a sled dog, eventually becoming the leader of a wolf pack. Through his experiences, Buck learns to embrace his animal instincts, developing a strong and primal connection to the wilderness. The novel follows his journey of self-discovery as he learns to survive in the wild and embrace the call of nature.

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family.In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed.But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?

Situées en des temps et lieux aussi divers que l'époque du quaternaire et un avenir lointain, en Amérique, à Tahiti ou au Mexique, ces huit nouvelles portent l'écho d'une seule et même plainte. Celle de l'homme écrasé par un système économique implacable. «La force des forts»: Aux temps préhistoriques, le vieux Barbeenlong décrit à ses petitsfils l'évolution qui a conduit le clan des Mangeursdepoissons de l'organisation individuelle de chaque famille, ce qui permettait aux Mangeursdeviande de les massacrer, à une société de plus en plus organisée. Mais ceci n'est pas allé sans abus. «Le chinago»: Dans une plantation de coton de Tahiti un coolie chinois en tue un autre. Le contremaître réussit à en coincer quatre qui étaient présents mais parmi le coupable ne se trouve pas parmi eux et n'est pas dénoncé par les autres. Parmi ces quatre coolies: AhChow est condamné à être guillotiné, AhCho est condamné à 20 ans de bagne. Vu la ressemblance des noms, n'y atil pas des risques d'erreur dans l'application des peines ? «Une tranche de bifteck»: Tom King est un boxeur en fin de carrière. Il n'a plus d'argent, on ne lui fait plus crédit. Lui et sa famille n'ont plus grand chose à manger. Avant d'aller à ce qui pourrait être son dernier combat contre un jeune adversaire plein de fougue et de vitalité, King ne rêve qu'à la tranche de bifteck qu'il n'a pu acheter. Commence alors un combat au cours duquel Tom va mettre en oeuvre toute la science accumulée au cours des vingt années précédentes.

Résumé de la nouvelle qui donne son titre à ce recueil: En hiver, par une journée sans nuage, un homme marche dans la neige, seulement accompagné d'un chien. Ce soir, il retrouvera ses compagnons qui empruntent un autre itinéraire. C'est son premier hiver au Klondike et aujourd'hui il est surpris par l'intensité du froid. Il sait que la rivière est complètement gelée même si elle peut cacher des pièges mortels. Lorsqu'il s'arrête pour déjeuner, le froid l'oblige à construire un feu. Quand il reprend sa route, le chien semble hésiter à abandonner la chaleur du foyer créé par l'homme. Soudain la glace casse sous ses pas. Seuls ses pieds sont mouillés, mais l'homme sait qu'il doit immédiatement agir pour les sauver du froid. Méthodiquement, il construit un second feu et commence à se réchauffer, fier de s'être sauvé tout seul. Malheureusement, par inexpérience, il s'est installé sous un arbre couvert de neige qui dégringole soudain et éteint son feu. À cet instant, l'homme comprend le conseil des anciens: «Au delà de cinquante degrés sous zéro, on ne doit point voyager seul.». Désespérément, l'homme essaie de reconstruire un feu mais ses doigts, ses mains, ses pieds sont déjà gelés...

Croc-Blanc est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London publié aux États-Unis en 1906. Le roman, adapté plusieurs fois au cinéma, relate l'histoire d'un chien-loup né à l¿état sauvage d'une mère mi-chienne mi-louve et d'un père loup, se trouvant confronté au monde des hommes.Dans le Grand Nord sauvage et glacé, un jeune loup apprend à lutter pour la vie. Les premiers hommes qu'il rencontre, des Indiens, le baptisent Croc-Blanc. Auprès d'eux, il connaît la chaleur du feu de camp, mais aussi le goût du sang. Racheté par un Blanc cupide, il est dressé pour le combat et découvre la haine. Un homme pourtant le sauve de cet enfer. Croc-Blanc lui vouera un amour exclusif.

«John Barleycorn», paru en France sous le titre «Le Cabaret de la dernière chance», est une autobiographie romancée. Ces souvenirs alcooliques étaient destinés à appuyer les partisans de la prohibition. A la parution en feuilleton dans le Saturday Evening Post, tous les antialcooliques s'en servent comme d'un étendard. Ni autobiographie, ni mémoires, ni récit, mais tout à la fois, le narrateur nous conte comment, tout au long de sa vie, une sorte de double l¿accompagna en permanence: John Barleycorn, qui ,en Amérique, est la personnification de l¿alcool. Pourquoi boiton, comment, dans quelles circonstances. Faits et geste du whisky, méfaits et geste de l¿alcoolique. «Dehors, nous brisions les goulots contre la bordure des trottoirs, et nous buvions.» Comment faire pour arrêter. Estil possible de seulement y penser? «Tous les chemins que je suivais étaient détrempés d¿alcool.»

Dans ces nouvelles, l'auteur, égal à luimême dans son style, nous relate des situations comiques ou périlleuses dans des domaines divers, tels que l'aventure, l'alpinisme, l'ascension en ballon, l'orpaillage, etc., mettant en lumière les valeurs humaines de ses personnages. Et en conclusion de chacune, comme l'indique le titre: Fautil en rire ou en pleurer?

Durant l'été 1902, Jack London va descendre dans les bas fonds de Londres (l'EastEnd). Se fondant dans la population, il va côtoyer les sans logis et les travailleurs pauvres. Au travers de son récit, nous allons découvrir toute l'horreur de la misère, les bastons, l'alcoolisme, le froid, les passages à tabac, l'errance. L'évocation est brutale, terrible à bien des égards et visionnaire en ce qu'il perçoit déjà comment ceci va se terminer. London raconte l'exclusion cent ans avant les historiens. C'est un travail d'enquête qui ferait rougir tous les journalistes bien pensants d'aujourd'hui.

Voici ce que disait l'auteur de ce roman: « Je tiens un splendide sujet de roman. Je viens de passer trois jours à prendre des notes pour être sûr de bien le cerner. À présent, je l¿ai bien en main. Seulement trois personnages ¿ un trio exceptionnel dans une situation exceptionnelle. Chacun des trois est sympathique, chacun des trois a du caractère. Ce sera un livre gagnant à tous les coups. Il est entièrement dominé par le sexe, du début à la fin ¿ sans qüaucune aventure sexuelle soit en fait accomplie ou à un million de kilomètres de l¿être. Oh, mes trois personnages ne sont ni pleurnichards ni moralistes. Ils sont cultivés, modernes et en même temps profondément primitifs. Et quand l¿histoire sera finie, le lecteur tirera son chapeau à chacun des trois: « Bon Dieu ! C¿est un homme » ou « Bon Dieu ! C¿était une femme ! » À mesure que j¿avance dans ce roman, je suis de plus en plus porté à croire que c¿est l¿aboutissement de toute notre vie d¿écrivain que j¿ai là entre les mains. Si l¿on excepte mon punch habituel qüon retrouve du début à la fin, on ne croira pas que c¿est moi qui l¿ai écrit, tellement c¿est si nouveau et différent de tout ce que j¿ai fait jusqüici. » Vous l'aurez compris, ce roman, en rupture complète avec les thématiques habituelles de l'auteur, était très important pour lui, et il l'est également pour tous ceux qui apprécient Jack London.

The Little Match and Other Writings has writings from authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe,Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Susan Glaspell, Willa Cather, Shirley Jackson, Langston Hughes, Jesse Stuart, Frank Stockton & .Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.The Book Contains Below Stories;The Little Match Girl; To Build a Fire; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; A Dark Brown Dog; The Monkey's Paw; The Cask of Amontillado; Eve's Diary; The Story of An Hour; The Luck of Roaring Camp; Regret; The Skylight Room; A Horseman in the Sky; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; The Minister's Black Veil; The Cactus; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; Scarlet Stockings; An Angel in Disguise; The Purloined Letter; A Jury of Her Peers; On the Gull's Road; The Lottery; Thank You, M'am; The Split Cherry Tree; The Cat; The Lady, or the Tiger? & The Night Came Slowly.

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The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictitious, represented book by Jack London chronicling his cruising experience across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Going with London on this journey was his better half Charmian and a little group. London showed himself heavenly route and the fundamentals of cruising and of boats throughout this experience and portrays these subtleties to the peruser. During the journey they visited fascinating areas including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. His first-individual records and photos give knowledge into these remote spots toward the start of the twentieth hundred years.

The Call of the Wild is a short experience novel by Jack London, distributed in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when solid sled canines were sought after. The focal character of the novel is a canine named Buck. The story opens at a farm in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is taken from his home and sold into administration as a sled canine in Alaska. He turns out to be logically more crude and wild in the cruel climate, where he is compelled to battle to get by and overwhelm different canines. By and by, he sheds the facade of human advancement, and depends on early stage intuition and learned insight to arise as an innovator in nature.

Love of life is one of the agent works of American pragmatist author Jack London, who utilizations itemized depictions of mental and philosophical exercises to frame an amazing picture feeling,e.g. in the cruel Canadian tundra, the ravenous, the injured beat the restrictions of their lives and make due in outrageous circumstances, with the goal that perusers can have an vivid understanding experience. In this book, London put the hero into a very troublesome and threatening living climate that is nearly confined from reality as well as extremely definite and sensible subtleties to introduce a emotional and undulating excursion of endurance to perusers by the third individual story point of view.This paper will dive into the exceptional appeal of Jack London's imaginative creation from two points of view: plot advancement and detail portrayal.

South Sea Tales is an assortment of eight interesting stories of imagination and experience in the South Seas. In light of Jack London's own experiences cruising in the South Pacific, "South Sea Tales" incorporates the accompanying short sotries: The House of Mapuhi, The Whale Tooth, Mauki, "Yah! Yah! Yah!", The Heathen, The Terrible Solomons, The Inevitable White Man, and The Seed of McCoy. Perusers, everything being equal, will thoroughly enjoy these stories of nautical experience.

Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibling of canine named Michael, about whom London composed another novel - Michael, Brother of Jerry. In the introduction, Jack London tells about the boat Minota on which he voyaged and which destroyed in the Solomon Islands. Skipper Kellar of Eugenie transport protected Jack London after the wreck yet later passed on by the hands of the man-eaters. London makes reference to a letter that he got from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford expounded on a correctional undertaking on the adjoining island. The second point of the activity was looking for the remaining parts of Jack London's companions. During the journey on Minota, Jack London and his significant other observed a canine on board the boat, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple connected to Peggy such a lot of that London's better half took the canine after the disaster area of t

First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London's life was unfortunately short however loaded with episode and experience. In John Barleycorn he keeps his initial difficulties in Oakland, his encounters as clam privateer, remote ocean sealer, homeless person, Yukon goldminer, understudy, nonconformist, and - eventually - top of the line creator. Long ignored by London hardliners (who wish he had never composed it) and utilized against him by pundits who might see him as a self-admitted inebriated, John Barleycorn should be commended for what it is: an exemplary of American life account.

Brown Wolf is a story written by Jack London. While living in radiant California, the dog wolf, is feeling the call of the wild nature, stark, ruined and bone chilling North. Neither the warmth that encompasses him, nor the great everyday environments can cause him to defeat his deepest craving to return to his underlying inception. In the story, Jack London, gives a wide outlook to understand mother nature and human nature. He also boosts emotional, curious and adventurous spirit of readers.

A collection of seven short stories, 'The Strength of the Strong' is London's marvellous composition. In these stories London highlighted the problems of the working classes and given a vivid picture of socialistic society. With various symbolic characters for government, industry, labour, religion etc., these stories set in diverse settings. He starts to look back with prehistoric stories, but also includes the stories of Chinese invasion of the world later in twentieth century.

'The Valley of the Moon' is an autobiographical portrait of Jack and his wife Chairman leaving working on the Oakland docks to live in Sonoma Valley. The story of Saxon and Billy is a love story that starts off with a boom and then go through difficulties and hard times. Saxon and Billy end up following a wonderful dream. This book is notable for the scenes in which the hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Moon. It is Saxon, London's most fully realised heroine, who embraces these concerns.

The Road, first published in 1907, is an autobiography by Jack London. London explains about his experiences and adventures as one of the hoboes. He spent his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. London starts with a story showing what excellent liars hoboes could be. He presents his illustration as an apology to a woman in Salt Lake City that he convinced to provide him support. The next chapter explains some other skills of the hobo, the most important of which is the 'holding down' of the train. The rest of the book details different aspects of hobo life, including their diverse backgrounds. The last chapter is about the "bulls", the cops. London says throughout the book about how the American system is unfair to the hoboes.

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's most remarkable book, published in 1902. Frona Welse is a strong female character of the book. It narrates the tale of Frona Welse's life in Yukon, originally she is a Stanford graduate and actual Valkyrie (supernatural woman) who takes to the path subsequent to disturbing her affluent dad's local area by her direct way and become friends with the town's whore. She is additionally conflicted between affection for two admirers: Gregory St Vincent, a neighbourhood man who ends up being weak and misleading; and Vance Corliss, a Yale prepared mining engineer. The novel is imperative for its solid and confident champion, one of numerous who might individuals his fiction.

The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American essayist Jack London. The story concerns a circle of drama. The hero, Dick Forrest, is a farmer with a graceful streak (his "oak seed tune" reviews London's play, "The Acorn Planters."). His better half, Paula, is a fiery, athletic, and physically mindful lady (in one scene, she rides a steed into a "swimming tank," arising in "a white smooth slip of a swimsuit that shaped to her structure like a marble-carven veiling of curtain.") Paula, as Charmian, is dependent upon sleep deprivation; and Paula, as Charmian, can't bear youngsters. In light of a perusing of Charmian's journal, Stasz recognizes the third vertex of the triangle, Evan Graham, with two genuine men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. Indeed, even minor characters can be distinguished; Forrest's worker Oh My looks like London's valet Nakata. The long-unshaven vagrant rationalist Aaron Hancock looks like the genuine deep rooted whiskery vagabond logician Frank Strawn-Hamilton, who was a drawn out visitor at the London farm. Artist Haakan Frolich shows up as "the stone carver Froelig" - and painter Xavier Martinez shows up as the person "Xavier Martinez!"

In 1912, Jack London written a book 'The Scarlet Plague'. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease. Victims face turned scarlet and their lower side become numb. Within 30 minutes, of first seeing symptoms, victims usually died. There was no cure, doctors and scientists, who were trying to do so were also get infected. The Scarlet Plague is an amazing story, showing us the same scenario as pandemic Covid-19 shown us.

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about existence in the East End of London in 1902. He composed this direct record by living in the East End (counting the Whitechapel District) for a very long time, some of the time remaining in workhouses or dozing in the city. The circumstances he encountered and expounded on were equivalent to those persevered by an expected 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

Best Seller ¿ Complete, Unabridged Edition.Only this CLASSICS MADE EASY¿ edition includes a comprehensive 150-WORD GLOSSARY.UNDERSTAND the dog sledding terms and slang from the period used throughout the story.PLUS: This book also includes a biographical article on the author, historical context, and more!This brilliantly compiled edition includes:GLOSSARY: A glossary of over 150 words, including dog sledding terms, slang and phrases from the time period which have all but been forgotten, and other hard-to-find or uncommon words.LOCATION GUIDE: An appendix alphabetically listing all locations mentioned in the story, with detailed information on each.CHARACTER GUIDE: An appendix alphabetically listing every character in the story and where they first appeared.HISTORIC CONTEXT: An orientation to the story, which lays out the historic background and key concepts you need in order to understand the context in which this book was written.UNABRIDGED TEXT: The full and unabridged text of Jack London's timeless classic, The Call of the Wild, typeset for easy reading.SCHOOL: The Call of the Wild is on many required reading lists, and this edition is a perfect fit.BONUS: A biographical article on Jack London.The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London, first published in 1903. This thrilling adventure story is set in the Klondike Gold Rush of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, in the late 1890s. Dog sledding was the mode of transportation and strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's main character, Buck, is half St. Bernard and half Scotch Shepherd dog. Raised as a domesticated dog on a ranch in southern California, Buck is stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog. Forced to survive in a foreign and uncaring environment, with tooth and claw being the only law. He must adjust and master his new life in the wild, by reverting to his ancestral instincts.Jack London's The Call of the Wild is a classic book which has been a historical fiction best seller year after year. This Classics Made Easy edition gives you the whole story and everything you need to love it, as millions have over the ages.