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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.

Jack London published a collection of short stories titled ""Dutch Courage And Other Stories"" in 1924. Fans and collectors of London's wonderful work shouldn't miss this collection, which will appeal to anyone who enjoys the short tale format. John Griffith London, better known by his pen name Jack London, was an American journalist, novelist, and social crusader who lived from 1876 to 1916. The book contains ten stories. Typhoon Off The Coast Of Japan Sailing-master remembers Sophie Sutherland's arrival in 1893 off the coast of Japan, close to Cape Jerimo. To get into position, the team had to pull three pairs of oars. The Lost Poacher Unknowingly, Mary Thomas had crossed the line. The men's looks were sombre because they knew too well what had happened to other seal-hunting poachers. The Banks Of The Sacramento Jerry Spillane, a young man, was singing an old chantey as he sat on a cabin step and watched the Sacramento River. Out of the pine trees, a tall, blue-shirted man wearing a rifle shirt asked him about his father. Other stories include Dutch CourageChris Farrington: Able Seaman To Repel BoardersAn Adventure In The Upper Sea Bald-faceIn Yeddo Bay ...

When God Laughs And Other Stories is a collection of short stories that you will enjoy. When God Laughs: makes London famous, including the battle for survival in the face of adversity, the baser instincts of human nature, and workplace abuse in industrialized civilizations.The Apostate: a young man who is troubled by the unfavourable workplace conditions. At spite of being brutalised by the inhumane working conditions in a textile factory, he eventually finds some kind of freedom. Just Meat: In order to get their hands on a cache of freshly stolen jewelry, two robbers arrange other's deaths.Make Westing: is a tale of a crooked sea captain torturing and abusing his crews during nightmare trips. A Piece of Steak: It depicts the ageing boxer's desperate struggles as he engages a younger opponent for the majority of a grueling twenty-round fight. All these stories distinctively and brilliantly uncover solid perspectives on human instinct at its worst or could express it more strongly than Jack London.

Martin Eden, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The Night-Born, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

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 Faith of Men is a brief tale assortment initially distributed in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's experience stories, every one of them set in London's favorite milieu - - the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "unattractive, blue-peered toward, spot confronted" tracker named Thomas Stevens and his following and inevitable killing of an ancient mammoth. "A Hyperborean Brew" additionally concerns Thomas Stevens and his plans. "In Batard," a shrewd expert makes a beast of an abhorrent canine. Different stories included are "The Faith of Men," "An excessive amount of Gold," "The One Thousand Dozen," "The Marriage of Lit," "Batard," and "The Story of Jees Uck."

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.

Stories from Northland. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (passage) On each hand extended the timberland primitive, - the home of boisterous parody and quiet misfortune. Here the battle for endurance kept on pursuing with all its old ruthlessness. Briton and Russian were still to cover in the Land of the Rainbow's End - and this was its actual heart - nor had Yankee gold at this point bought its huge area. The wolf-pack actually gripped to the flank of the cariboo-crowd, singling out the powerless and the huge with calf, and pulling them down as callously as were it a thousand, thousand ages into the past. The scanty natives actually recognized the standard of their bosses and medication men, drove out awful spirits, consumed their witches, battled their neighbors, and ate their foes with a relish which commended their tummies. In any case, it was exactly when the stone age was attracting to a nearby. As of now, over obscure paths and chartless unsettled areas, were the harbingers of the steel arriving,...

On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales is the assortment of brief tales, distributed in 1919. The activity is set in Hawaii and shows London's adoration and direct information on the islands and the conventional lifestyle. Jack London stays one of the most darling American authors of the mid twentieth hundred years. This assortment is suggested for anybody who partakes in the brief tale structure, and it is an unquestionable requirement perused for enthusiasts of London's work. Partake in the perusing.

The Game is a collection of memoirs of the creator, Neil Strauss, and investigates his experiences with intriguing individuals from a specific local area. It depends on his genuine encounters over a range of two years. The original discussions about a sincerely disappointed man who joins a training camp and turns into a pickup craftsman. He becomes amazing at drawing in and tempting ladies so well that soon he ends up being a Guru nearby, surpassing the individual from whom he took in the craftsmanship. The book has shock components as the writer's experiences with the absolute most famous Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. The creator changes himself from a normal person into a man whom each lady would need to be with. His tone, his discussion abilities, and his style is to the point of beguiling any lady. The peak is unexpected to the convictions of the local area of pickup specialists. The Game aides ladies in figuring out the way of behaving of such men, and is likewise reasonable for men who need to beguile ladies.

[Smoke Bellew]This story presents to you the change of a guiltless youngster working for a news organization, into a meat eating, full hairy man. Christopher (Smoke) Bellew, a newspaperman, sets out on an excursion into the harsh Alaskan wild, just intending to assist his family members and be available for half a month. However, this challenge gets a new forthcoming of life, rather than expounding on these times, live them. He decides to remain in the Klondike himself and forge ahead with this newly discovered lifestyle. Life, passing, and love are three significant subjects of the novel, three of which Smoke has never experienced for himself. Jack London rejuvenates the intolerable environmental elements, however the everyday routine one should experience.

The author of the book 'Theft' is Jack London. He begins the book as a commercial fiction later concluded as a science fiction. Theft is a political piece, in which Knox a congressman, telling unethical activities of Anthony Starkweather, a well-known industrialist. Likewise London's other stories it is also showing, anti-capitalist theme. The whole plot of the story is moving around to search out the documents, that can confirm Knox statements.

"Michael, brother of jerry" is a 1917 novel via jack london. It's miles the sequel to his novel "jerry of the islands", which became also launched in 1917. The books tell the tale of the irish terriers jerry and his brother michael, who both are living on the solomon islands. This fascinating tale will attraction to dog fanatics and lovers of dog literature, and it isn't always to be missed by means of the ones who have read and loved different works with the aid of jack london. John griffith london (1876 - 1916), usually called jack london, become an american journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of industrial mag fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were capable of earn a large sum of money from their writing.

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most indispensable and unique person Jack London at any point made. Set in San Francisco, this is the narrative of Martin Eden, a devastated sailor who seeks after, fanatically and forcefully, dreams of training and abstract notoriety. London, disappointed with the awards of his own prosperity, planned Martin Eden as an assault on independence and an analysis of aspiration; nonetheless, quite a bit of its status as an exemplary has been given by admirers of its aggressive hero. Andrew Sinclair's wide-going presentation examines the contention between London's help of communism and his strong self-will. Sinclair additionally investigates the equals and divergences between the existence of Martin Eden and that of his maker, zeroing in on London's psychological melancholies and what they meant for his portrayal of Eden.

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

'Children of the Frost's, first printed in 1902, is a good collection of short stories of Jack London. Previously, most of these stories were published in, reputed weekly or monthly magazines. Most of the stories, knitted around North America and the Klondike Gold Rush. Exhibiting London's exemplary composing style, he imparts to us stories of Native Americans and Europeans struggling against difficult terrain and severe climatic conditions in Alaska.

Lost Face is an assortment of seven brief tales by Jack London. It takes its named from the primary brief tale in the book, about an European swashbuckler in the Yukon who outmaneuvers his Indian capturers' arrangements to torment him. This assortment incorporates London's most popular brief tale, To Build a Fire. It recounts the tale of another explorer in the Klondike who overlooks alerts about traveling solo and whose life relies upon the capacity to construct a fire. Additionally included are Trust, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, and The Wit of Porportuk.