![]() ![]() ![]() Jack London (1876-1916) was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, California. Andrew Sinclair, London's official biographer and the volume's editor, provides a brief account of London's life as a sailor, desperado, socialist, adventurer and acclaimed author. In his introduction, James Dickey probes London's strong personal and literary identification with the wolf-dog as a symbol and totem. This volume of Jack London's famed stories of the North also includes 'Batard', in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner and 'Love of Life', in which an injured prospector, abandoned by his partner, must struggle home alone through the wilderness, stalked by a lone wolf. ![]() White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog struggling to survive in a human society every bit as violent as the natural world. The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. ![]()
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![]() That all changed when a remaindered copy of FitzGerald’s 20-page booklet was picked up for a penny by the Celtic scholar Whitley Stokes, who passed it on to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who subsequently fell in love with it and sang its praises to his Pre-Raphaelite circle. Mill’s On Liberty – went completely unnoticed: it didn’t sell a single copy in its first two years. ![]() Its initial publication in 1859 – the same year as Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and J.S. Obscure beginnings perhaps, but the poem’s remarkable publishing history is the stuff of legend. ![]() ![]() How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was written by the eccentric English scholar Edward FitzGerald, drawing on his loose translation of quatrains by the 12th-century poet and mathematician Omar Khayyám. ![]() ![]() ![]() This review will focus on these two themes in particular. ![]() While the exploration of Christ’s humanity is the primary focus of the novel, a second theme, also vividly and compellingly pursued, is the strength of the women in Christ’s life. Few of them, however, have managed to portray as complete, as realistic, as human a portrait of Jesus Christ as does Christopher Moore’s comic novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. New York: William Morrow, 2002.Īttempts within popular culture to humanize Jesus Christ have been as varied as the many artworks depicting a laughing Jesus South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s animated short featuring Jesus wrestling Santa Claus over the true meaning of Christmas the hippie revolutionary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ and, of course, the horrifically tortured Messiah of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.Īll of these popular works capture some aspects of Christ’s humanity, whether it is his sense of humor, the ambivalence with regard to his mission on Earth, or the very real physical torments he suffered. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. ![]() ![]() By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Books for Boys Books for Girls Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction Native American Books New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep. ![]()
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