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 Americ[...]
'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" establi[...]
From White Fang to The Iron Heel, The Call of the Wild to The People of the Abyss, London's novels are intense and atmospheric, and deserve their standing and reputation as some of the most exciting adventure stories ever put to paper. Jack London was highly qualified to be one of the 20th century's[...]
Jack Londons adventurous nature and his superb ability as a storyteller give these tales striking vitality and force. Thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence are the characteristics of the stories in this collection,[...]
Presents a collection of tales from Jack London in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.[...]
Gold Gold for anyone with the guts to get it. But at what price? Prospector "Burning Daylight" learns that life is about more than money in this tale of adventure in the days of the Yukon.[...]
The classic tale of the dog named Buck who is abducted from his comfortable home to a life of hard labor in the frozen land of the Yukon. **** This generously-sized edition has been priced and designed for students with special margins for easy note-taking on each page.[...]
Presents the story of Buck, the cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack.[...]
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available th[...]
Having been stolen away from his comfortable life with his loving family, Buck is forced to work on a dog sled team in the fierce conditions of the Klondike, where he must forget his happy past and turn to his animal instincts in order to survive in his new surroundings. Reprint.[...]
Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators, but eventually comes to make his peace with man. Reprint.[...]