Jack London

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...