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Jack London’s White Fang is an impactful examination of the harsh realities of nature and the damage humans can cause, but also of the will to survive that is common between humans and wild animals alike. The story follows White Fang, a feisty wolf pup that becomes a vicious wolf due to his interactions with harsh human masters. He is shuffled between masters throughout his life and taught to be destructive but is eventually shown love and compassion by a human and learns gentleness as an adult wolf.

"The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush when strong sled dogs were in high demand.

The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive.

Part 1 of 5: White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

A lifelong waterman, Jack London (1876-1916) left behind a rich store of bold and beautiful prose depicting life upon the sea, under sail, and in step with wild, often perilous, nature. Featuring an extended Introductory essay by author and sailor Edward Renehan, Make Westing presents the very best of London's nautical prose in one volume for the very first time.

Tales of the frozen North and the men and women who dared to challenge it, by the author of The Call of the Wild.

The story proper begins with Avis Everhard, a daughter of a renowned physicist, John Cunningham, and future wife of socialist Ernest Everhard. At first, Avis Everhard does not agree with Ernest's assertion that the whole contemporary social system is based on exploitation of labour. She proceeds to investigate the conditions the workers live in and those terrible conditions make her change her mind and accept Ernest's worldview. Similarly, Bishop Morehouse does not initially believe in the horrors described by Ernest but then becomes convinced of their truth and is confined to a madhouse.

When Martin Eden, a young struggling sailor from a working-class background, falls in love with Ruth Morse, a young member of the wealthy Morses family, he decides to rise above his circumstances, become a writer, and achieve a place among the literary elite. He then embarks on a fervent and determined pursuit of self-education.

The themes of man's inhumanity to man, as well as man pitted against the violence of nature, are vividly exposed in this sampling of Jack London's short stories. The titles included in this collection are "Love of Life", "Batard", "The House of Mapuhi", and "Mauki".

Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent. Rarely has the raw realism of life on the edge of civilization been so vividly captured.

The Sea Wolf is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sailing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute...and he is the captain.

La historia sigue a un hombre y su compañero, quienes, después de un viaje fallido por el Ártico canadiense en busca de oro, se encuentran luchando por sobrevivir en el inhóspito paisaje. Ambos están debilitados, hambrientos y exhaustos. Durante su lucha, el compañero del protagonista decide dejarlo atrás, pensando que está demasiado débil para continuar. Sin embargo, el hombre se niega a rendirse y sigue avanzando, impulsado por su deseo innato de sobrevivir y su amor por la vida.

Más de 25 horas de audiolibros: Tarzán de los Monos, de Edgar Rice Burroughs - Dramatizado; El Corazon de las Tinieblas, de Joseph Conrad - Dramatizado; Nada Es lo Que Parece, de Alejandro Khan - Dramatizado; y La Llamada del Instinto, de Jack London - Dramatizado. Grandes aventuras!

"The Inevitable White Man" written by Jack London: So said Captain Woodward. We sat in the parlor of Charley Roberts' pub in Apia, drinking long Abu Hameds compounded and shared with us by the aforesaid Charley Roberts, who claimed the recipe direct from Stevens, famous for having invented the Abu Hamed at a time when he was spurred on by Nile thirst-the Stevens who was responsible for "With Kitchener to Kartoun," and who passed out at the siege of Ladysmith.

Desde o seu nascimento, Caninos Brancos aprende as leis de sua matilha: comer ou ser comido. Em sua luta pela sobrevivência, o cão-lobo é confrontado com a violência do mundo dos homens... Será que o homem é mesmo tão diferente dos outros animais?

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts lebt der Hund Buck im Süden der USA. Eines Tages wird er von dem Gärtner seines Besitzers aufgrund von Spielschulden entführt und als Schlittenhund nach Alaska verschleppt. Im Verlauf der Geschichte erreicht ihn mehr und mehr der "Ruf der Wildnis". Nach vielen Abenteuern mit ständig wechselnden Schlittenführern wird Buck von John Thornton gerettet. Die beiden werden ein unzertrennliches Paar.

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

"Wolfsblut" - ein Klassiker der Jugend- und Abenteuerliteratur. Der junge Wolf lernt das Leben in der Wildnis kennen, doch seine Mutter ist nur zur Hälfte Wolf. Und es gibt auch in Wolfsblut Instinkte, die ihn die Gesellschaft des Menschen suchen lassen... Packender Roman über Kälte, Natur, das Leben in der Wildnis - und die Freundschaft von Mensch und Tier.

"To Kill a Man" by Jack London (1876-1916) is a story about an intruder being caught by one of the inhabitants of a house. An interesting conversation ensues. At the end, the intruder shames the woman who had held him captive for a while.

"Yah! Yah! Yah!" written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath.

Buck je čtyřletý pastevecký pes hýčkaný svým pánem a jeho rodinou. Jeho život se rázem změní ve chvíli, kdy je unesen a prodán, aby sloužil během zlaté horečky na Klondiku, v kanadské provincii Yukon. Psi, dostatečně silní k zapřažení do saní v těžkém sněhu, zde mají obrovskou cenu. Jen díky své houževnatosti a přátelství se zálesákem Thorntonem dokáže Buck přežít mezi krutými lidmi. V novém prostředí brzy zjistí, že jeho vrozené instinkty mu umožní nejen přežít, ale že ve svobodném, volném a divokém životě nakonec nachází i zalíbení.