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Admiré par tous et choyé par son maître, le chien Buck n'a vraiment pas de raison de se méfier des humains. Un homme va pourtant l'arracher à son foyer ; un autre va lui enseigner la loi du plus fort. Devenu chien de traîneau, Buck découvre la violence, le goût du sang. Des rivalités déchirent la meute dont il fait maintenant partie. Alors que Buck s'éloigne de la civilisation, une voix venue de la forêt éveille dans sa mémoire l'appel de la nature, puissant, irrésistible.

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

'The land was enormous, white with snow and silent. Into the still, lifeless silence broke the sounds and movements of life - of dogs breathing, and men calling to the dogs ...' White Fang is one of these dogs and the greatest fighter of them all. A classic adventure story by Jack London who wrote The Call of the Wild (also available as a Penguin Reader, Level 2). Recommended for younger learners.

THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. Drawing on his wolf heritage, Buck must fight for survival in an alien environment. WHITE FANG is London's classic adventure novel centering on a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel the essential savagery of wilderness life among animals and men.

La mayor parte de las narraciones incluidas en este volumen rememoran y dan forma a las intensas experiencias vividas por JACK LONDON (1876-1916) durante el largo viaje que realizó entre 1907 y 1909 a Polinesia. Pese a estar recorridos siempre por una corriente de humor o de fina ironia, estos RELATOS DE LOS MARES DEL SUR, sin embargo, expresan las obsesiones y convicciones que dominaron la existencia del inquieto autor de El silencio blanco (LB 673), El lobo de mar (LB 1364) o La llamada de la naturaleza (LB 1449): en los conflictos que se plantean en ellos la victoria nunca sera de la moral, la etica o los ideales, sino de las fuerzas primigenias, del impetu ciego de la naturaleza o de la violencia de los hombres.

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist. Andrew Sinclairs wide-ranging introduction discusses the conflict between Londons support of socialism and his powerful self-will. Sinclair also explores the parallels and divergences between the life of Martin Eden and that of his creator, focusing on Londons mental depressions and how they affected his depiction of Eden.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.