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Jack London was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, and remains one of the most beloved, but while his novels have remained continuously in print for a century, his short stories have been much harder to find.

Unabridged version of Jack London’s break out novel of survival is the essence of the American dream, its longings, and frustrations.  Taste the cold with Buck in the unforgettable adventure of The Call of the Wild.

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories by Jack London set in island communities, like those of Hawaii.

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Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker.

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Before Adam is a novel about a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early humanoid Australopithecine. The story offers an early view of human evolution and is told through the eyes of the boy's humanoid alter ego, one of the Cave People.

This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students.

A SON OF THE SUN By JACK LONDON (Fine Print Edition) - 1912 - The Adventures of Captain David Grief

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A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant robber baron of Medieval Germany. Young Otto, born into a warring household in an age when lawless chiefs were constantly fighting each other or despoiling the caravans of the merchant burghers, is raised in a monastery only to return to his family's domain and become painfully involved in the blood feud between his father and the rival house of Trutz-Drachen.

“I ain’t knocked round the city streets all my life for nothin’,” proclaims Ragged Dick, the fast-talking boy hero of Horatio Alger’s classic rags-to-riches tale. Dick is a plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically—but he is also honest and hardworking, striving not for wealth and status, but for a steady job, a decent place to sleep, and respectability.

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.

First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.”

When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot - by H. Rider Haggard. When the World Shook is a novel by H. Rider Haggard written in 1919. It deals with the adventures of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot as they travel to the south sea island of Orofenia.

Allan Quartermain returns in another adventure! After he finds an illusive and rare orchid from Africa, he returns to England with Mr. Scroope. While he visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana -- that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used umong the Africans.

The Ancient Allan - By H. Rider Haggard – Complete Edition. Classic H. Rider Haggard. Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly.

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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.