Jack London

"Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed...

A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing schooner which rescues him after a shipwreck.

The beloved author of such works as The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf turns his keen eye to social realism in The People of the Abyss. In this fascinating volume, Jack London recounts his first-hand experiences living in the slums of the city that bears his name. Read the non-fiction account that brought world-wide attention to the appalling conditions facing England's working poor in the early twentieth century.

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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...

"Part wolf, part dog, with the strength and courage of both in his blood, White Fang is an orphan cub in the frozen frontier of the Yukon. His is a world of enemies, animal and human. His inborn instincts and acquired ways teach him to hunt--to fight--to win! Nothing else matters. Men exploit and abuse him until one man teaches the noble animal to recognize his own greatest attribute-his loyalty. Only then can White Fang face the most dangerous challenge...

Adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are designed and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require students to recall specific details, sequence the events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. Imrpoves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary. Has been measured...

White Fang, part wolf and part husky, is the hero of this exciting series of adventures set in the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. Based on the classic short story by Jack London, the series starts when the animal's life is saved by 12 year old Wendy Scott, and a unique and lasting friendship evolves. Features all 26 episodes plus 5 bonus episodes!

Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...