The Call of the Wild is a vibrant story of Buck, a big and kindhearted dog, a crossbreed between a St. Bernard and a Scotch shepherd whose carefree life of leisure was suddenly upset when he was stolen from his home in Santa Clara County, California and deported up north, to be sold in Skagway, Alaska, and taken further north, to Dawson City, Yukon, during the late 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. As a newcomer to the dog team delivery service - and not before long their front-runner - Buck, a dog like no other, who had been spoiled, and who had suffered, but he could not be broken, is having the time of his life. Forced to fight to survive, eventually taken by his last owner, John Thornton, to proximity of the Arctic Circle, somewhere between Yukon and Alaska, he progressively depends on his primal instincts, sheds the comforts of civilization and responds to "the call of the wild", as master of his own.

Buck, a domesticated dog who is thrust into the wild during the Klondike Gold Rush. He transforms from a pampered pet to a fierce, independent creature, embracing his primal instincts and answering the call of the wild

The Call of the Wild

The world-famous fairy tale was written by an English writer and mathematician in 1865. This book is one of the best examples of nonsense literature. In the fairy tale, the reader can see dozens of complicated philosophical, mathematical and linguistic jokes. In this story, we can find many interesting hidden meanings. The girl Alice spends her time on the river bank. She is bored. Suddenly she sees a strange white rabbit. The small animal has a big pocket watch in his paws and he is in a hurry. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a hole. The curious girl finds herself in a phantasmagoric world inhabited by many anthropomorphic creatures. And this is only the beginning of her unusual, strange and surprising adventures.

Alice in Wonderland

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is an adventure story about a man-cub named Mowgli. Mowgli is hunted by an evil tiger named Shere Khan. Mowgli tries to live a peaceful life with other humans, but is too wild for them and too human for the wolves. Eventually Mowgli finds a home in the jungle with a pack of his own.

Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The book features memorable characters like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther as they navigate the challenges of the wild

The Jungle Book

A woman is hired by the mysterious master of Thornfield Hall as a governess for his young ward.

Jane Eyre

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."
The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati:
"Sir--
I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

1984

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

Around the World in Eighty Days

The story of five families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

War and Peace

A young Gascon moves to Paris to join the King’s Musketeers where he starts to investigate the kidnapping of his landlord’s wife.

The Three Musketeers

A man seeks revenge for having been falsely imprisoned years earlier.

The Count of Monte Cristo

An escaped convict steals two candlesticks and uses the proceeds to redeem himself and become an honest man.

Les Misérables

Frontiersmen and Native Americans help transport a colonel’s daughters through upper New York during the French and Indian War.

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757

A disinherited knight returns from the Crusades and fights back against Prince John’s reign.

Ivanhoe: A Romance

A young Jewish man’s family is falsely imprisoned and he is sent to the galleys; when he is released, he swears revenge on the Romans.

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

An unlikely love story between Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician, and Lygia, a young Christian, blooms under the backdrop of Nero’s rule in ancient Rome.

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

An orphaned street-urchin follows a holy man across India during the time of the British Raj, eventually gaining an education and becoming a recruit to the Great Game of espionage against the Russians.

A Union soldier in the American Civil War longs to prove his courage in battle.

The Red Badge of Courage

A daring Englishman with a secret identity rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

A family is reunited, added to, and then threatened to be torn apart by events arising from the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities

A young woman faces grave personal challenges when her family moves from a rural parish in the New Forest to the industrial North of England.

North and South

A religious fanatic’s mysterious friend helps turn him into a killer.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.

Pride and Prejudice

Two sisters take long journeys to love in early nineteenth-century England.

Sense and Sensibility

A Victorian dandy turns to a life of debauchery after a magical portrait stops him from aging.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Captain Ahab, having lost his leg to the white whale Moby Dick, travels the world on a quest for vengeance.

Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

A wealthy young woman decides to take on the role of patroness and matchmaker to a young protégé, with considerably less than successful results.

Emma

An adopted child ends up tearing apart families in a quest for power and revenge.

Wuthering Heights

A woman in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony is forced to wear the shame of her sin embroidered on her clothes.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance

The semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy who rises up to become a successful novelist.

David Copperfield

A young woman of uncertain parentage is taken in by a kindly guardian, while her fate and that of two other young people hinge on the outcome of an interminable legal case.

Bleak House

A girl and her grandfather struggle through a life of poverty amidst a diverse cast of memorable characters in Victorian London.

The Old Curiosity Shop

An orphan boy living in Victorian England begins his life in extreme poverty and goes on to experience good fortune, love, rejection, wealth, and social challenges as he grows into adulthood.

Great Expectations

A young boy growing up in Missouri gets into all sorts of trouble and, with his friend, stumbles on a treasure.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The adventures of a young boy and his friend, an escaped slave, on the Mississippi river in the Antebellum South.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The story of how four young sisters grow to adulthood.

Little Women

A tragic scientist creates a monster in his laboratory.

Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

A mysterious presence terrorizes the Paris Opera.

The Phantom of the Opera

Description
Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic, Crime And Punishment, tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.
No. 11 in 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die.
Part of the Harvard Classics set.
This book has 204,129 words, and was originally published in 1866. This translation by Constance Garnett was first published in 1914.
Production notes: This ebook of Crime and Punishment was published by Global Grey on the 12th February 2018, and updated on the 14th June 2022. The artwork used for the cover is 'Portrait of the writer A. N. Strugovshchikov' by Karl Bryullov.

Crime and Punishment

An ancient undead monster terrorizes Victorian London.

Dracula

A London lawyer investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A Gothic tale of chivalry, romance, and horror.

The Castle of Otranto

A young woman experiences a series of unfortunate situations connected to an ancient castle.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

A pious monk is led astray by a demon in disguise, while the son of a marquis tries to elope with a local nun.

The Monk: A Romance

A collection of five of Le Fanu’s short stories, including his most notable work “Carmilla,” presented as cases of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius.

In a Glass Darkly

A set of overlapping tales tell the story of a mysterious, malevolent, ageless stranger.

Melmoth the Wanderer

A powerful caliph embarks on a quest to harness the powers of darkness.

Vathek: An Arabian Tale

Two beautiful sisters are forced to live under the control of their tyrannical nobleman father.

A Sicilian Romance

The Turn of the Screw

A group of middle-class Victorians find themselves pitted against an ancient Egyptian evil.

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