Children of the Frost, Jack London

Автор: Jack London
Название: To Build a Fire and Other Stories
ISBN: 0553213350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553213355
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3650.00 T
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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 from his later writing, plus six stories unavailable in any other paperback edition.

Here, along with London's famous wilderness adventures and fireband desperadoes, are portraits of the working man, the immigrant, and the exotic outcast: characters representing the entire span of the author's prolific imaginative career, in tales that have been acclaimed throughout the world as some of the most thrilling short stories ever written.

Автор: Jack London
Название: The Iron Heel
ISBN: 1542322278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781542322270
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Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: Plot summary The novel is based on the (fictional) "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith. Meredith writes from around 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man). Jack London writes at two levels, often having Meredith condescendingly correcting the errors of Everhard yet, at the same time, exposing the often incomplete understanding of this distant future perspective. Meredith's introduction also acts as a deliberate "spoiler" (the term did not yet exist at the time of writing). Before ever getting a chance to get to know Avis and Ernest, how they fell in love or how Avis became politically involved, the reader is already told that all their struggles and hopes would end in total failure and repression, and that both of them would be summarily executed. This gives all that follows the air of a foreordained tragedy. There is still left the consolation that a happy end would come for humanity as a whole - though hundreds of years too late for Avis and Ernest as individuals; the cruel oligarchy would fall, and the two will be vindicated and respected by posterity as pioneers and martyrs. The Manuscript itself covers the years 1912 through 1932 in which the Oligarchy (or "Iron Heel") arose in the United States. In Asia, Japan conquered East Asia and created its own empire, India gained independence, and Europe became socialist. Canada, Mexico, and Cuba formed their own Oligarchies and were aligned with the U.S. (London remains silent as to the fates of South America, Africa, and the Middle East.) In North America, the Oligarchy maintains power for three centuries until the Revolution succeeds and ushers in the Brotherhood of Man. During the years of the novel, the First Revolt is described and preparations for the Second Revolt are discussed. From the perspective of Everhard, the imminent Second Revolt is sure to succeed but from Meredith's frame story, the reader knows that Everhard's hopes would go unfulfilled until centuries after his death. The Oligarchy are the largest monopoly trusts (or robber barons) who manage to squeeze out the middle class by bankrupting most small to mid-sized business as well as reducing all farmers to effective serfdom. This Oligarchy maintains power through a "labor caste" and the Mercenaries. Labor in essential industries like steel and rail are elevated and given decent wages, housing, and education. Indeed, the tragic turn in the novel (and Jack London's core warning to his contemporaries) is the treachery of these favored unions which break with the other unions and side with the Oligarchy. Further, a second, military caste is formed: the Mercenaries. The Mercenaries are officially the army of the US but are in fact in the employ of the Oligarchs. Asgard is the name of a fictional wonder-city, a city constructed by the Oligarchy to be admired and appreciated as well as lived in. Thousands of proletarians live in poverty there, and are used whenever a public work needs to be completed, such as the building of levee or a canal. The Manuscript is Everhard's autobiography as she tells of: her privileged childhood as the daughter of an accomplished scientist; her marriage to the socialist revolutionary Ernest Everhard; the fall of the US republic; and her years in the underground resistance from the First Revolt through the years leading to the Second Revolt. By telling the story of Avis Everhard, the novel is essentially an adventurous tale heavily strewn with social commentary of an alternate future (from a 1907 perspective). However, the future perspective of the scholar Meredith deepens the tragic plight of Everhard and her revolutionary comrades.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Call of the wild
ISBN: 1914602250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914602252
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Цена: 24540.00 T
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Автор: Jack London
Название: Call Of The Wild
ISBN: 0007420234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007420230
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 2680.00 T
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Описание: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Martin Eden
ISBN: 0140187723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140187724
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 12700.00 T
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Описание: Presents the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. This title also discusses the conflict between London`s support of socialism and Martin`s powerful self-will.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Call of the Wild and White Fang -
ISBN: 0785839895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780785839897
Издательство: Quarto
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Цена: 8950.00 T
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Описание: The ICB Holy Bible, filled with full-page color illustrations, help children "see" Bible characters and events. Its large 10-point type and bold subheadings also make it easy to read. And boldfaced words connecting to the Bible`s kid-friendly dictionary helps increase understanding of Scripture. Now updated with a new typesetting and cover designs.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Dominoes: Two: White Fang
ISBN: 0194248828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194248822
Издательство: Oxford University Press
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Цена: 6860.00 T
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Описание: CD: American English

Автор: Jack London
Название: Martin Eden
ISBN: 8853022426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788853022424
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 8190.00 T
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Автор: Jack London
Название: Best Short Stories of Jack London
ISBN: 0449300536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780449300534
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Описание: "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.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Sea Wolf. the & Other Stories
ISBN: 0451523563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451523563
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3030.00 T
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Автор: Jack London
Название: White Fang & the Call of the Wild
ISBN: 0451525582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451525581
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3030.00 T
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Автор: Jack London
Название: Sea Wolf
ISBN: 0553212257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553212259
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 3030.00 T
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Описание: A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing-schooner that rescues him after a shipwreck.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Selected Works of Jack London HB
ISBN: 164517347X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645173472
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Цена: 20890.00 T
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Описание: A beautiful leather-bound collectible volume of Jack London`s stories.

Автор: Jack London
Название: PER2 White Fang
ISBN: 140585538X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405855389
Издательство: Pearson Education
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Цена: 8210.00 T
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Описание: Classic / American English White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy in his world. Then he is taken to the world of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about love. But one day he meets Scott...

Автор: Jack London
Название: Call of the Wild & White Fang
ISBN: 1853260266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853260261
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Цена: 4400.00 T
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Описание: The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories.