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Jack London

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1) The call of the wild, White Fang, and other stories

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Series

Oxford world's classics
Penguin American library
Penguin twentieth-century classics

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"A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works... The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon Territory, is...

2) Novels and social writings

Author

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States

Pub. Date

c1982

3) Jack London

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Series

Graphic Classics

Publisher

Eureka Productions

Formats

eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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Graphic Classics: Jack London is completely revised, with over fifty pages of new material. New to this edition are adaptations of "The Red One" illustrated by Mark A. Nelson and "The Wit of Porportuk" by Arnold Arre. Plus a new comics adaptation of "To Kill a Man" by Kostas Aronis, and a completely redrawn "That Spot" by Nick Miller. Returning from the previous edition are "A Thousand Deaths" by J. B. Bonivert, "Jan, the Unrepentant" by Hunt Emerson

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4) Northland stories

Author

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Formats

Book, Large Print

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Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy relationship between the Native Americans and whites lies...

5) The best short stories of Jack London

Author

Series

Fawcett premier book

Formats

Book, Large Print

6) Novels & stories

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Series

Library of America volume 6

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States

Pub. Date

[1982]

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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...

7) The call of the wild, and other stories

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Series

Illustrated junior library

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Classic tales based upon the special relationships that dogs have with man.

8) White fang ; and, Call of the wild

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Publisher

Barnes & Noble

9) Faith of men

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Classic Jack London short stories, including A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold, The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-lit, Batard, and The Story of Jees Uck. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction,

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10) The call of the wild ; and, White fang

Author

Series

Vintage classics
Clydesdale Classics

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Townsend Adult Books Set in the Wilderness

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in Canada, Buck is trained as a sled dog in cold wilderness of the Klondike region. However, Buck's ordeal has only begun, as he is forced to learn how to overcome both in the brutal conditions and as the primal social facets...

11) Tales of adventure

Author

Publisher

Hanover House

Pub. Date

[1956]

12) White Fang, and other stories

Author

Publisher

Dodd, Mead

Pub. Date

[1963]

13) The short stories of Jack London: authorized one-volume edition

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14) The unabridged Jack London

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Includes the author's major novels and short stories as they appeared in their original form. Each work is preceded by a short introduction that fixes it biographically and chronologically.

15) The son of the wolf: tales of the Far North

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Series

Oxford world's classics

Publisher

Oxford University Press

16) Jack London

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Publisher

Exeter Books

Pub. Date

1986, c1983

17) The call of the wild ; White Fang

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Publisher

Reader's Digest Association

Pub. Date

c1985

18) Five great short stories

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Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1992

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Five stories that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story. "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," and "An Odyssey of the North" bring the harshness of the frozen North powerfully to life. "The Seed of McCoy" reflects London's experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. "The Mexican" combines London's talents as a sports writer with a sympathetic portrayal of a prize fighter involved in the Mexican Revolution. Publisher's Note.

19) White fang ; and, The call of the wild

Author

Publisher

Signet Classic

Pub. Date

[1991]

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This collection features the tales of Jack London, a superb storyteller with a taste for adventure and an instinct for the fierce justice of the wild. Included are his masterpieces "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild."

20) White fang

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Townsend Adult Books Set in the Wilderness
Townsend Books with Animal Protagonists

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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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?