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Sitka Charley had achieved the impossible. Other Indians might have known as much of the wisdom of the trail as did he; but he alone knew the white man's wisdom, the honor of the trail, and the law.

In The Road, Jack London embraces the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism through his autobiographical account of his time riding the rails of Canada and the United States. The author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and Sea Wolf, relays the time leading up to turning point in his life - a perfunctory trial and a 30-day imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary for the crime of vagrancy - an experience so degrading that he turned to a career in writing.

Jack London had quite an issue with the super-rich. Here a group targets the super-rich with a rather unique blackmail scheme. They begin by killing random individuals unless a ransom is paid. Innocent victims die, as the wealthy ignore the warnings until gradually the victims become closer to the target. A very interesting plot.

A man with no name follows a wandering path into the frozen Klondike. And here, deep in the heart of God's country, he is forced to pit his will, mind, and spirit against the forces of Mother Nature herself.

If you were a reporter looking for a story from one who was a part of a visiting circus who would you visit? What would you ask? Classic writer Jack London takes on the role and shares a story about why it may not be in your best interest to upset a member of the circus. This story bites back. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

Jack London, famed for his tales of adventure, was also a science fiction writer only rivaled in his time by the great H. G. Wells. The Iron Heel is a dystopia that would, in part, inspire George Orwell's masterwork, 1984. The Iron Heel tracks the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States of America - and the doomed attempt to counter it. It is a novel more relevant today than it was in its day. Hear the "tale of capitalist oppression" that George Orwell couldn't stop thinking about.

Jack London draws upon his own experiences of a long Klondike winter to tell the story of two men, complete opposites in almost every way, who break off from their gold-searching party to spend a long winter together in a remote cabin. Thinking it will be easier than pushing on further north with the rest of the party, they fight against the cold, dwindling supplies, endless days of complete darkness, encroaching madness, the ubiquitous "Fear of the North", and ultimately, each other.

To Build a Fire is regarded by many as an American classic, one of London's most highly regarded works. We never know the name of the protagonist as he makes his way towards his destination, trekking across the Yukon at 70° below zero. Nature is unforgiving to those who challenge her.

Jack London worshiped strong and virtuous heroes, and his stories give great weight to the inevitable triumph of good over evil. His telling of the adventures of Humphrey van Weydon in The Sea Wolf is in keeping with this theme of moral man. His powerful and gripping saga of van Weydon's capture by a seal-hunting ship and the ensuing tangles with its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen, makes this a classic American tale of peril and victory.

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.

"День пламенеет" - роман американского писателя Джека Лондона об авантюристе Эламе Харнише по прозвищу Время-не-ждёт. Книга вышла в 1910 году. Прототипом главного героя частично послужил предприниматель из Сан-Франциско Фрэнк Смит. Элам Харниш по натуре игрок, которому вся жизнь представляется игрой. Умело и цинично играя, Харниш наживает миллионы. Преуспевающий бизнесмен живет по законам джунглей, пока не встречает стенографистку Дид Мэсон.

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.

"Rozhdennaja v nochi" - sbornik rasskazov amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Opublikovan v 1913 godu. Geroi rasskazov - sil'nye i muzhestvennye ljudi, kotorym v zhizni vypadaet nemalo ispytanij, no nesgibaemaja volja, ostroe zhelanie borot'sja za svoju zhizn' i svoe mesto "pod solncem" ne pokidajut ih. Zdes' net mesta miloserdiju, nereshitel'nost' pochitaetsja za trusost' i vedet k gibeli.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja roman amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916) "Mjatezh na Jel'sinore". Respektabel'nye passazhiry korablja Jel'sinora, vstupiv na bort, neozhidanno obnaruzhivajut, chto komanda sostoit iz kakih-to strannyh lichnostej: sumasshedshih, p'janic, kalek, ljudej somnitel'nogo proishozhdenija, nabrannyh v poslednjuju minutu na beregu. No sredi komandy est' i drugie ljudi: umnye, smelye, zhestokie, gotovye pojti na ljuboe prestuplenie....

"Dzhon Jachmennoe Zerno" (povest') - avtobiograficheskaja povest' Dzheka Londona, rasskazyvajushhaja o zhizni pisatelja svjazannoj s vypivkoj. Povest' byla opublikovana v 1913 godu. Nazvanie vzjato iz britanskoj narodnoj pesni Dzhon Jachmennoe Zerno. Istorija o tom kak chelovek stanovit'sja alkogolikom, ego oshhushhenija i videnija, bor'ba s tjazhelym nedugom - vse jeto opisano krasochno, jarko, i v tozhe vremja strashno.

"Lunnaja dolina" (angl. The Valley of the Moon) - roman-utopija amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona, vpervye opublikovan v 1913 godu. V samom bol'shom proizvedenii pisatelja pokazan uhod glavnyh geroev iz zhestokogo i besposhhadnogo mira v Lunnuju dolinu, gde chelovek mozhet svobodno zhit' v garmonii s okruzhajushhim mirom i samim soboj.

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.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja znamenituju knigu rasskazov "Cherepahi Tjesmana" amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Jeta kniga, napisannaja rukoj zrelogo mastera, stala poslednim proizvedeniem, vyshedshim pri ego zhizni.

Izdanie soderzhit znamenityj sbornik rasskazov "Hram gordyni" ( The House of Pride) vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916). Soderzhanie: Hram gordyni. Kulau-prokazhennyj. Proshhaj Dzhek. Aloha oje. Chun-a-chun. Sherif kony.