White Fang
The story of one dog's will to survive. = White Fang = Jack London APPLE Classics - Feared by everyone, loved by no one. - White Fang was part dog, part wolf, and the only one of five tiny cubs to survive. In his lonely world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of the North—kill or be killed. But nothing in his young life prepared him for the cruelty of the bully Beauty Smith, who buys White Fang from his Indian master and turns him into a vicious killer—a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce deadly killer? ISBN 0-590-40523-3 Published by Scholastic Inc. issue: repaired.
White Fang
The story of one dog's will to survive. = White Fang = Jack London APPLE Classics - Feared by everyone, loved by no one. - White Fang was part dog, part wolf, and the only one of five tiny cubs to survive. In his lonely world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of the North—kill or be killed. But nothing in his young life prepared him for the cruelty of the bully Beauty Smith, who buys White Fang from his Indian master and turns him into a vicious killer—a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce deadly killer? ISBN 0-590-40523-3 Published by Scholastic Inc. issue: diagonal fold in front.
White Fang
The story of one dog's will to survive. = White Fang = Jack London With an introduction by K.A. Applegate SCHOLASTIC Classics - Fierce. Feared. - White Fang was part dog, part wolf, and the only one of five tiny cubs to survive. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North—kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who buys him and turns him into a vicious killer—a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce deadly killer? - For each Classics Edition published, Scholastic will make a donation to a literary or children's charity. ISBN 0-439-28592-5 issue: scraped edge of back cover.
White Fang
He was a silent fury. Who no torment could tame— = White Fang = Complete and Unabridged Jack London —The Savagery of the Wild— He was three quarters wold and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, in the frozen arctic. Born in a world where the weak died without mercy, where only the swift, the strong, the cunning saw each dawn. It was White Fang's world—until he and his mother were captured by the man-gods. —The Cruelty of Man— But men and their dogs taught White Fang to hate. He was beaten, abused, attacked. He was bought, sold, tortured, trained to kill in blood sports. Knowing no kindness, he became a mad, lethal creature of pure rage. —The Power of One— Only one man saw White Fang's intelligence and nobility. Only one had the courage to offer the killer a new life. `But can a wolf understand the word "hope"?` `Can a creature of hatred understand the word "love"?` WHITE FANG The Life of Jack London, Foreword & Afterword by Dwight V. Swain AERIE Books LTD US/0-938-93830-5 CAN/0-938-81931-3 issue: creases at front coverpage.
Summer
= SUMMER = Edith Wharton Introduction by Candace Waid Signet Classic ~ from back cover ~ In 1917, when Edith Wharton published *Summer*, she was living in a France "steeped in the tragic realities of war." Yet she set this book far away from Paris in the same dark, rigid New England she used for *Ethan Frome*. In such a place, she explored her most daring theme—a woman's awakening to her s***** needs. The novel's heroine, eighteen-year-old Charity Royall, is bored in the small town of North Dormer and ignorant of desire until she meets a visiting architect, Lucius Harney. Like the lush summer of the Berkshires around them, their romance is shimmering and idyllic, but its consequences are harsh and real. And the book, for its early twentieth-century audience, was shocking. Wharton's pellucid prose, her raw depiction of the mountain community where Charity was born, the intrusion into Charity's bedroom by her guardian, Lawyer Royall, and Charity's rites of passage into adulthood elevate *Summer* into a groundbreaking study of society, nature, and human needs. Joseph Conrad prized this gem of a novel; the author herself favored it; and now the modern reader can experience the most e***** fiction Edith Wharton ever wrote. With an Introduction by Candace Waid ISBN 0-451-52566-3 issue: a small crease at the edge of the back cover.
Edith Frome
Edith Wharton = Ethan Frome = With a New Foreword by Anita Shreve Signet Classic ~ from back cover ~ A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, *Ethan Frome* is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemntion, he is ultimately destroyed by that which offers him the greatest chance at happiness. Like *The House of Mirth* and many of Edith Wharton's other novels, *Ethan Frome* centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual. Written with stark simplicity, this powerful and tragic novel has long been considered one of Wharton's greatest works. With a new Foreword by Anita Shreve June 2000 Cover painting: George Inness, Home at Montclair, 1892. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA ISBN 0-451-52766-6
Edith Frome
Edith Wharton = Ethan Frome = Afterword by Alfred Kazin ~ from book cover ~ Published in 1911, *Ethan Frome* is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of Ethan Frome, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical wife, Zeena, and his star-crossed love for Zeena's vivacious cousin, Mattie Silver. "In its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes Alfred Kazin in his Afterword, "Ethan Frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." An exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, *Ethan Frome* stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century American literature. Look for other Edith Wharton titles in Collier rack-size editions. Cover design by Lee Wade Cover illustration © 1987 by Judy Pederson 1987 Edition COLLIER BOOKS MACMILLAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 866 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 ISBN 0-02-026480-1 issue: a tear in the corner of the back cover.
Edith Frome and Other Short Fiction
= Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction = Edith Wharton With an introduction by Mary Gordon Bantam Classic ~ from back cover ~ On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife's orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity. Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, "The Last Asset," "The Other Two," and "Xingu." Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America's finest writers. ISBN 978-0-553-21255-6 Bantam Classic edition April 1987 Bantam Classic reissue October 2007 issue: edges a little worn.
Treasure Island
Signet Classic Robert Louis Stevenson = Treasure Island = ~ from back cover ~ For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, *Treasure Island* has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climatic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil—but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, *Treasure Island* is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, "the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas." G. S. Fraser terms it "an utterly original book" and goes on to write: "There will always be a place for stories like *Treasure Island* that can keep boys and old men happy." With an Afterword by G. S. Fraser ISBN 0-451-52189-7
Treasure Island
Collins Classic Robert Louis Stevenson = Treasure Island = ~ from back cover ~ > Fifteen men on the Dead Man's > Chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Upon finding a map in his parents' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charrming yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim's swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure — where his own bravery is put to the test and he discovers much about friendship, loyalty and betrayal. Features Life & Times — a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication Glossary of Classic Literature — useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken from Collins English Dictionary Cover by e-Digital Design. Cover photograph by iStock Photo / © Rhienna Cutler ISBN 978-0-00-735101-5 Known issue: a split corner of the back cover.
