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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild. The novels are in fact mirror images of one another, as Call of the Wild depicts Buck's journey from domestic to wild dog, while White Fang recounts White Fang's transformation from wild beast to domestic companion. Both convey powerful themes of redemption and survival that…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White Fang EN
The Call Of The Wild is thestory of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrustinto the merciless life of the Arctic north toendure hardship, bitter cold, and the savagelawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal part dog, partwolf turned vicious by cruel abuse, thentransformed by the patience and affection of one man. Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller andhis uncanny…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild and White Fang EN
Presented together in one volume, these are two of the greatest and most popular animal stories ever written. Even to designate them as animal stories seems to undervalue them, because these tremendous works are so much more than mere children's tales, although they are admittedly still greatly loved by the young. Penned by Jack London at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first, The Call of the Wild, tells…
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Jack London The call of the wild / Volanie divočiny +Audio CD
Román Jacka Londona patrí medzi najúspešnejšie vo svojom žánri. Rozpráva príbeh psa Bucka, ktorý sa zo skroteného maznáčika stane vodcom vlčej svorky na divokom Severe v období Zlatej horúčky. V zjednodušenej verzii je anglický text doplnený slovenským prekladom na protiľahlej strane, slovníčkom a okomentovaním zaujímavých gramatických javov. Čitateľ môže čítať originálny príbeh a pokiaľ by niečomu nerozumel, ihneď…
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Jack London The Call Of The Wild + CD
Buck, a big happy dog, is kidnapped from his comfortable home in California and is sold as sled dog in the cold Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. His new life in the Norhland is difficult, chellenging, adventurous...
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Jack London The Call of the Wild + CD EN
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.
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? Penguin Readers is...
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
Buck is a strong, intelligent dog who moves from an easy life in Californiato the Klondike. Life is tough in the cold north of Canadaand Buck has to learn many hard lessons to survive...
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Jack London The Call of the Wild EN
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.
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Jack London The Call of the Wild EN
Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck's natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog, scavenging for food, protecting himself against other dogs and sleeping out in the cold snow. Sold to a…
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The Call of the Wild EN
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve—all at an incomparable price. Here is the ultimate dog story, one filled with emotion, adventure, and…
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Jack London, Silvana Sardi The Call of the Wild EN
When The Call of the Wild was published the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out immediately and it is still one the best known stories written by an American author. Buck, a happy, quiet dog living in sunny California, is kidnapped and sent north to begin a new hard life as a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. Read about his adventures and the many problems he has to face in this new cruel world. Discover…
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Jack London The Call of the Wild CZ
Román od Jacka Londona vypráví příběh psa Bucka, který se z ochočeného mazlíčka stane vůdcem vlčí smečky na divokém severu. Předlohou pro Bucka byl skutečný pes – kříženec bernardýna a kolie. Kniha se dočkala mnoha divadelních i filmových ztvárnění. Naše zjednodušená verze prochází zkrácenou formou všemi důležitými místy románu. Účelem je rozšířit slovní zásobu i schopnost rychle a bezpečně porozumět mluvené…
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Chris Sidwells The Call of the Road
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories EN
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft’s preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master’s fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as The Outsider to the…
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories EN
H.P. Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S.T. Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. These stories reveal the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establish him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu EN
Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
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Hugh Kennedy The Caliphate EN
What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used and abused today? In the first modern account of a subject of critical importance today, acclaimed historian Hugh Kennedy answers these questions by chronicling the rich history of the caliphate, from the death of Muhammad to the present. At its height, the caliphate stretched from Spain to the borders of China and was the most powerful…
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George R. Stewart The California Trail EN
In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life. But they had found a trail, or cleared one, and by their mistakes had shown others how to take wagon trains across half a continent. By 1844 a great…
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John Flanagan The Caldera
The Herons take to the high seas to fend off pirates and rescue the heir to an empire in the newest adventure from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice! Includes BONUS content-a brand-new Ranger's ...
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Rose Levy Beranbaum The Cake Bible EN
Providing countless solutions and tips for commonly encountered baking problems, this comprehensive cake cookbook provides precise instructions for baking and decorating spectacular special-occasion cakes of any size up to eighteen inches in diameter.
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Maxime Chattam The Cairo Diary EN
British-occupied Cairo, 1928:Several young children have disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from One Thousand and One Nightsbeen brought to life? British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of the monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo as well as deep…
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Igor Kalinauskas The Cage - the Story of Beauty
Unikátny projekt režiséra, psychológa, mysliteľa Igora Kalinauskasa. Pred nami sa odvíja mystický príbeh krásy od stvorenia po znovuzrodenie - vo svojej jedinečnej podobe, s jasnou dramaturgiou, brilantnou scénografiou a fascinujúcou rečou. Príbeh krásy mapuje etapy života ženy od obdobia jej dospievania až po dosiahnutie zrelosti. Archetypálne obrazy žien videné fotoobjektívom tretieho tisícročia ukazujú zákruty a…
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