Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories, Jack London

Автор: Jack London
Название: Novels and Stories1
ISBN: 0940450054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940450059
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 24520.00 T
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Описание: This Library of America volume of Jack London's best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers.

The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog's sudden entry into the wild and the education necessary for his survival in the ways of the wolf pack. Like many of London's stories, this one is inspired by the early deprivations of his own pathetically short life: the primitive conditions of life as an oyster pirate in San Francisco; the restless existence of a hobo; the isolation of a prison inmate; the exertion of a laborer in the Oakland slums; and the frustration of a failed prospector for gold in the Alaskan Klondike.

White Fang (1906), in which a wolf-dog becomes domesticated out of love for a man, is apparently the reverse side of the process found in The Call of the Wild, yet for many readers its moments of greatest authenticity are those which suggest that, in actual practice, civilization is pretty much a dog's life for everyone, of "hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony."

Though London was a reader of Marx and Nietzsche and an avowed socialist, he doubted that socialism could ever be put into practice and was convinced of the necessity for a brutal individualism. He thought of The Sea-Wolf (1904), the story of Wolf Larsen and his crew of outcasts on the lawless Alaskan seas, as "an attack upon the superman philosophy," but the Captain is far more memorable than any of the book's civilized characters. London is an immensely exciting writer partly because the conflicts in his thinking tend to enhance rather than hinder the romantic and thrilling turns of his plots.

The stories of the Klondike, which are based on his personal experiences and the stories of California, Mexico, and the South Seas, span the whole of London's career as a writer. He is one of the great storytellers in American literature, and his politics, with all their passion and contradiction, come to life through the vigor and red-blooded energy of his prose.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Jack London: San Francisco Stories
ISBN: 1453840508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781453840504
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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: 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: 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: White Fang/the Call of the Wild
ISBN: 0140621148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140621143
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Call of the Wild
ISBN: 0140817603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140817607
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 4650.00 T
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Описание: An American classic, this story is written from a dog's point of view. Buck, a dignified dog from California, is transported to Alaska to work as part of a sled team. His mistreatment and experiences gradually isolate him from civilization, as he rearranges his priorites in order to adapt.

Автор: Jack London
Название: Martin Eden
ISBN: 8853022426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788853022424
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Цена: 8190.00 T
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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: 0486817121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486817125
Издательство: Dover
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Цена: 11750.00 T
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Описание: Smitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's determined striving leads to a resolve to become a writer himself, but his success comes at the price of disillusionment, leaving him stranded between his proletariat origins and the bourgeois world.
Originally published in 1909, Jack London's semi-autobiographical novel reflects the painful struggles with learning that led to his eventual achievement of literary fame. Martin Eden addresses the author's internal conflict between his dream of a cooperative socialist utopia and his survival-of-the-fittest evolutionary views. Widely considered London's most mature work, the book abounds in memorable characters and settings as well as thought-provoking explorations of the nature of love, the importance of remaining true to personal aspirations rather than others' expectations, and the injustice of class divisions.

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: 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.

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: The Son of the Wolf
ISBN: 1977670288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977670281
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Цена: 11390.00 T
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