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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 book begins when Weyden's ship sinks in San Francisco harbor. Rescued by Larson, Weyden is forced to serve as cook's scullion. Larson's heads for the Bering Sea where Van Weyden finds human cruelty matched only by nature but he also finds something else when a young lady is also rescued by Larson.

This story recounts the legend of Keesh, an Eskimo boy who used "brains not brawn" to defeat a powerful polar bear and save his people from starvation.

Diable - A Dog, first appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine June, 1902. Unlike Buck in The Call of the Wild, this fiercely independent dog was anything but man's best friend. Most thought he was a devil but, as the story says his master Black Leclère was also a devil, "and the twain were well matched."

Joe Fleming, a youth of twenty, earning his livelihood as a sailmaker and supporting his mother and sisters by his trade, augments his income by prize-fighting before so-called sporting clubs. On the eve of his marriage to Genevieve, an employe' in the Silversteins' candy shop, Joe is to fight his last bout before a club, having promised Genevieve to give up "the game," which, while it seems wrong to her, is to him a clean and manly as well as lucrative occupation.

Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella, a ragged and tattered old man tells his progeny of what life was like before The Scarlet Plague appeared - and wiped out civilization as they knew it.

A wild wolf cub is born into the frozen north and learns the hard reality of living by tooth and claw. Discovering prey and being prey are his first hard lessons, with many more to follow. White Fang is a hard-hitting adventure that follows the life of a semidomesticated wolf cub that survives birth in the wild and then the delights and horrors of human domination. By turns ferocious, exciting, adventurous, horrifying, and heartwarming, this classic animal adventure will keep you listening.

What was that amazing otherworldly sound? Bassett, a specimen hunting naturalist, is overwhelmed and obsessed with finding its source. Into the jungle of Guadalcanal he plunges, undeterred by fierce cannibals, headhunters, deadly tropical diseases, and a romantic savage. Relentlessly onward he fights his way, until many weeks later, sick and dying, he finally comes face to face with, and learns the incredible secret of, The Red One.

Dealing with the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf White Fang, he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats...

Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survival. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?

The classic short story "To Build a Fire", by American author Jack London, is brought to life in ways he probably never imagined when it was first published in 1908. The subtle blending of narration and music create a vivid image of the "Man" and his "Wolf Dog" as they set out on foot along the Yukon in temperatures colder than negative 50 degrees F. With plans to meet his friends at a logging camp by 6:00pm, the Man finds himself pitted in a life-or-death struggle with nature.

Ljudi bezdny" (angl. The People of the Abyss) - kniga sociologicheskih ocherkov amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona, opublikovannaja v 1903 g. Kniga napisana po rezul'tatam zhurnalistskogo rassledovanija, provedjonnogo Dzhekom Londonom v stolice Britanskoj imperii.

Izdanie soderzhit znamenityj sbornik rasskazov "Vechnye formy" vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916). Soderzhanie: Vechnye Formy. Zapisano v prijute dlja slaboumnyh. Ten' i blesk. Perezhitok tretichnoj jepohi.

Severnye rasskazy byli pervymi proizvedenijami molodogo Dzheka Londona, imevshimi bol'shoj uspeh u chitatelej. Jeti rasskazy risujut iskljuchitel'no jarkij, svoeobraznyj mir, polnyj dejstvija, jenergii, chelovecheskoj aktivnosti. Mnozhestvo ljudej raznyh harakterov, vozrastov, nacional'nostej, veroispovedanij vystupaet v nih. Zolotoiskateli, ohotniki, pogonshhiki sobak, provodniki, avantjuristy, brodjagi.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja znamenityj roman "Morskoj volk" amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916), o kapitane shhuny Prizrak Volke Larsone, strannoj lichnosti: bezzhalostnom, grubom, sil'nom cheloveke i v to zhe vremja svoeobraznom filosofe... Glavnyj geroj Hjemfri Van-Vejden, spasjonnyj s zatonuvshego parohoda jekipazhem promyslovoj shhuny, perezhivaet mnogo trudnostej i unizhenij v bor'be s morem i nepredskazuemym harakterom kapitana, po pravu nosjashhego prozvishhe Volk Larsen.

Vo mnogom, avtobiograficheskij, javljajushhijsja odnim iz samyh chitaemyh proizvedenij pisatelja, roman rasskazyvaet o zhizni cheloveka iz samyh nizov, stavshego znamenitym pisatelem. Dobivshis' v zhizni ochen' mnogogo, Martin Iden prinimaet reshenie ujti iz zhizni....

"Puteshestvie na «Oslepitel'nom»"(angl. The Cruise of the Dazzler) f- povest' amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona, vyshedshaja v 1902 godu. Povestvuet o puteshestvii sbezhavshego iz doma parnja na korable ustrichnyh piratov «Oslepitel'nyj».

Roman «Prikljuchenie» povestvuet o polnoj opasnostej zhizni belyh kolonistov sredi ljudoedov Solomonovyh ostrovov. V romane jarkimi, mnogocvetnymi kraskami izobrazheny zhizn', obychai i obrjady tuzemcev odnogo iz samyh tainstvennyh mest na zemnom share. V SSSR roman schitalsja «rasistskim» i nahodilsja pod zapretom v techenie 64 let.

«Krazha» - luchshaja drama Londona. Jeta istorija objedinila i ljubovnye otnoshenija, i spekuljaciju politicheskimi interesami, muzhestvennye postupki i otkrovennoe predatel'stvo. Po svidetel'stvu ego zheny Charmian London, pisatel', sozdav «Krazhu», schital, chto na sej raz on napisal «dovol'no horoshuju p'esu». Odnako n'ju-jorkskie teatral'nye agentstva, kotorym dramaturg predlozhil svoe proizvedenie, edinodushno ot nego otkazalis', i Londonu tak i ne udalos' uvidet' «Krazhu» v scenicheskom ispolnenii.

Rasskazy Dzheka Londona iz sbornika "Sila sil'nyh" (The Strength of the Strong), ob'edinjaet obshhaja tema - vnutrennie protivorechija v haraktere i sud'be sil'nyh lichnostej. Rasskazy Londona zastavljajut s neterpeniem sledit' za razvitiem dejstvija. No vnimanie chitatelja prikovano ne neozhidannymi povorotami sjuzheta, a dramatizmom situacii.