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The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
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English
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"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
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Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Nine tales from antiquity will enthrall children with the exploits of kings and beggars in a spellbinding world of demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. Drawn from authentic sources, the captivating stories are enlivened by numerous imaginative illustrations.
5) White Fang
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English
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"A pup is born to the snow-bitten wilds of the Northwest Territories, not quite a wolf and not quite a dog either. In this brutal landscape, he must fight tooth and claw to live - and soon earns his name, White Fang. Journeying from the Yukon to California, White Fang will encounter savage lynxes, gold hunters, masters both cruel and kind, before finding his home at last. Inspired by author Jack London's own experiences and companion to The Call of...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A plump little meadow mouse is always an inviting target for hungry hunters in the Green Meadows. This certainly should give Danny Meadow Mouse enough cause for concern; but lately, he's been worrying about something else - his short tail! In fact, he wants so much to have a different tail that he almost forgets to take care of the one he has Danny spends much of his time avoiding the likes of Hooty the Owl, who drifts effortlessly above him in the...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Here are two favorite stories by “the father of American literature” exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illustrations. Once again in these pages, Ichabod Crane, the hapless schoolmaster of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, faces the terror of the Headless Horseman; and the henpecked husband of Rip van Winkle rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed....
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