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Wrestling with the disease of alcoholism for most of his life, Jack London tells all in his autobiography John Barleycorn. Beginning with a discussion of the prohibition movement and its effects, London explores the ways that alcohol affects daily life in the Victorian era. Because there were not many forms of affordable entertainment or reliable communication, bars were the perfect spot for social activity. People were able to sit and drink, enjoying...
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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876, and in his youth was a boundlessly energetic adventurer. His adventures in the American wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most popular and best-selling author of his generation. After a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty, but he left...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
1 videocassette. 91 minutes. color. VHS format. CC closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Based on the novel by Jack London. John Thornton sets out for the Yukon to escape his father's control, but finds the harsh conditions and competitive spirit to be more of a challenge than he had anticipated.
12) Jack London
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Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 230
Pub. Date
1974
Description
Bibliography: p. 165-171. A critical study of selected works that represent London's thematic concerns, styles, and temperament.
13) Jack London
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Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Examines the life and works of the American author best known for his tales of hardship and survival set in the Yukon Territory.
18) White Fang
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.
19) Call of the wild
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Hollywood legend Clark Gable stars in this soaring adaptation of the celebrated Jack London novel. Jack Thornton is a prospector who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When Jack buys Buck, a strong and loyal sled dog with part-wolf ancestry, their thrilling adventure through the Alaskan wilderness begins.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Learn about one of the greatest heroes of American literature: a dog named Buck. One of the greatest books of all time was written by a man named Jack London during the early twentieth century. The Call of the Wild has gone on to not only become a children's literary classic, but also one of the greatest stories ever told. Let's go back and take an in-depth look at the author, the story and how it became the iconic tale read and admired the world...