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As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of Londons best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the...

A Novel of Epicurean AdventuresThe chef&'s towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones&'s urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris&'s most distinguished chefs. Jean will win his high bonnet and the royal...

(A Modern Library E-Book)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeD.H. Lawrence's magnificent exploration of human sexuality in the days surrounding World War I. 'Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions,'...

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Toms Cabin did for the Negro, wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, I would be thankful the rest of my life. Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by...

A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy&'s experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy&'s later years. His nave hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with his privileged and superficial existence in Moscow and hopes to find...

Special abridged editionHere is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero&'s odyssey that has captivated much of the world. It is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in the service of the Persian emperor defeats many enemies, loves many women,...