The Call of the Wild & White Fang - Couverture souple

London, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804168857 ISBN 13 : 9780804168854

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014

Synopsis

Jack London’s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization.

The canine hero of The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered pet in California who is stolen and forced to be a sled dog in the Alaskan wilderness. There he suffers from the brutal extremes of nature and equally brutal treatment by a series of masters, until he learns to heed his long-buried instincts and turn his back on civilization. White Fang charts the reverse journey, as a fierce wolf-dog hybrid born in the wild is eventually tamed. White Fang is adopted as a cub by a band of Indians, but when their dogs reject him he grows up violent, defensive, and dangerous. Traded to a man who stages fights, he is forced to face dogs, wolves, and lynxes in gruesome battles to the death, until he is rescued by a gold miner who sets out to earn his trust.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist, whose stories and novels set in Alaska and the South Pacific earned him worldwide fame.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804168857
• ISBN 13: 9780804168854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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