A number of lesser-known South Pacific tales.

Buck, a powerful St Bernard dog is stolen from his comfortable Californian life in Santa Clara Vally and sold to a pair of French Canadians, who think Buck is one in a thousand. They take him to Alaska and train him as a sled dog where he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates. The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular novel. We follow Buck's journey through the harsh landscapes as a sledge dog, passing from one master to another, and get introduced to deeper themes such as survival of the fittest, civilization versus...

Istorija prevrashhenija san-francisskogo literatora i hudozhnika v zolotoiskatelja, istorija nastojashhej druzhby i ljubvi rasskazannaja legko, zanimatel'no i s chuvstvom jumora. Dzhek London snova v horosho izvestnoj srede iskatelej prikljuchenij, no surovaja dejstvitel'nost' ustupaet zdes' mesto idealizirovannym, uvlekatel'nym, poroj opasnym, no vsegda schastlivo okanchivajushhimsja prikljuchenijam. S illjustracijami

Majkl, brat Dzherri prodolzhaet istoriju o dvuh ter'erah, ch'i imena stali simvolom druzhby i predannosti. Tjaga k puteshestvijam, ljuboznatel'nost' i ogromnoe zhelanie otyskat' svoego brata zastavili irlandskogo ter'era Majkla proniknut' na bort parohoda. Druzhba s chelovekom pomogla Majklu vyzhit' v morskom pohode, a neobyknovennaja soobrazitel'nost' sdelala ter'era zhelannoj dobychej dlja ohotnikov za sensacijami. No pri ljubom povorote sud'by Majkl veril, chto rano ili pozdno on i brat snova budut vmeste. S illjustracijami

Odna iz samyh ljubimyh knig samogo Dzheka Londona rasskazyvaet ob udivitel'nyh prikljuchenijah irlandskogo ter'era Dzherri. S rozhdenija Dzherri videl ot svoego hozjaina tol'ko zabotu i ljubov'. No odnazhdy zhizn' ego rezko peremenilas' - Dzherri okazalsja na ostrove, naselennom odnimi tuzemcami. Prirodnyj um, nahodchivost' i smelost' pomogli neobyknovennoj sobake izbezhat' mnozhestva opasnostej i dazhe najti druga vo vrazhdebnom plemeni tuzemcev. Posle togo kak jetot roman uvidel svet, vo vsem mire pojavilos' ogromnoe kolichestvo sobak, nazvannyh v chest' geroja jetoj knigi, a mnogie...

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I dont want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me. It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was...

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without move-ment, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but...

This early work by Jack London was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'A Relic of the Pliocene' is a short story about a man that hunts a mammoth with primitive weapons. Jack London was born in San Francisco, USA in 1876. In order to support his working class family, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a string of unskilled jobs, before returning briefly to graduate. London published his first short story, Typhoon off the Coast of Japan, in 1893. At this point, he...