Jack London
52) Martin Eden
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Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
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THE YUKON "Gold Hunters of the North (1903)", "The Taste of the Meat (1911)", "In a Far Country (1899)", "To Build a Fire (1908)", "Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1917)", "The White Silence (1899)", "The Law of Life (1901)". ALASKA "Lost Face (1908)". THE CANADIAN BARRENS "Love of Life (1905)". CALIFORNIA "All Gold Canyon (1905)", "White and Yellow (1905)", "The Apostate (1906)", "Four Horses and a Sailor (1911)". UTAH "Mountain Meadows Massacre...
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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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Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean...