Jack London
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Six years after the fall of the Alamo, Mexican armies invade freely across the Rio Grande and Texas is but one skirmish away from losing its hard-won independence. Against this backdrop, naive surveyor Alexandre LaBranche accepts a dubious commission to map the Rio Grande boundary between Texas and Mexico but soon finds himself far out of his depth. Bullied into spying by a vindictive Sam Houston, saddled by two humbling horse thieves, and unsettled...
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"Buck is a well-loved and happy dog, living on a ranch with other happy dogs and an owner who loves him. But one night, he is taken from his loving home, forced to work hard pulling sleds with a team of other unkind dogs. He quickly learns that to survive, he must set his wild side free. This new adaptation of Jack London's classic novel tells the story of a loveable dog seeking his purpose and belonging, and ultimately deciding if he should answer...
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Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean...
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THE YUKON "Gold Hunters of the North (1903)", "The Taste of the Meat (1911)", "In a Far Country (1899)", "To Build a Fire (1908)", "Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1917)", "The White Silence (1899)", "The Law of Life (1901)". ALASKA "Lost Face (1908)". THE CANADIAN BARRENS "Love of Life (1905)". CALIFORNIA "All Gold Canyon (1905)", "White and Yellow (1905)", "The Apostate (1906)", "Four Horses and a Sailor (1911)". UTAH "Mountain Meadows Massacre...