Classic Starts®: White Fang - Couverture rigide

London, Jack

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1402725000 ISBN 13 : 9781402725005

Editeur : Union Square Kids, 2006

Synopsis

Half wolf, half dog, White Fang fully understands the cruelty of both nature and humans. After nearly starving to death during the frigid Arctic winter, he’s taken in first by a man who “trains” him through constant whippings, and then by another who forces him to participate in vicious dogfights. Follow White Fang as he overcomes these obstacles and finally meets someone who offers him kindness and love.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"One hundred and one years after its publication, it is still enthralling. The opening chapters are haunting, their depiction of the wilderness of snow, ice and forest faced by gold prospectors exquisite and terrifying. The menace of ever-present death, for man, dog and wolf alike, in a setting of remorseless beauty, is bracing and humbling" ( Herald)

"Raw narratives of visceral appeal whose cinematic energy cry out for film adaptation" (Robert McCrum Observer)

"A searing book about man and animals and the inherent wildness in the nature of the dog. It's a very stark book in some ways but it really conjures up the atmosphere of Gold Rush-era Yukon" ( Daily Express)

Biographie de l'auteur

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Union Square Kids
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1402725000
• ISBN 13: 9781402725005
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Andreasen Dan
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible