Jack London
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The story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life--and long stretches in a straitjacket--by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London's friend Ed Morrell.
4) White Fang
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"In the icy wastes of the Klondike, a wolf cub is born. He must somehow survive cold, starvation, and deadly predators, but there is a much greater danger: man! Jack London's heartwarming tale of man and wolf is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format."--Page 4 of cover
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"Jack Thornton is an adventurer who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog with the strength of his part-wolf ancestry, Jack's luck changes. A winning $1000 bet on Buck's stamina is only the first of the awards that his friendship with the canine will bring. When the pair, along with Jack's friend Shorty, happen upon a woman who's lost her husband in the wild, they begin their greatest adventure yet in this rousing...
8) White Fang
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Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.
9) The sea wolf
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Wolf Larsen is the tyrannical captain of a freighter, who would rather "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." He lords over a roughneck recruit, two castaways and his crew in a cruel manner.
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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this 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 the world...
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The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers...
12) Martin Eden
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"Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, [this film] is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin ... is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student ... The dissatisfactions of working-class...
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These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Included are eight pages of end-of-book activities to enhance the reading experience. Buck is much bigger and stronger than the other dogs. But he wasn't born to the savage life of the Alaskan frontier. Is it too late for him to learn the "law of club and fang"? Can he survive the bitter weather, a vicious rival, and the deadly mistakes of his bungling owners? --Publisher
14) White fang
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"White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy in his world. Then he is taken to the world of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about love. But one day he meets Scott ..."--Page 4 of cover.