<p> The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. <br>Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. <br> <br> London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott. </p> <br> <p> <br>* * * </p> <br> <p> <br> BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong musc-les by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. <br> <br> Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through widespreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vineclad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. <br> <br> Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.</p>
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Dieses eBook: "Das Feuer: Tagebuch einer Korporalschaft" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Das Feuer: Tagebuch einer Korporalschaft. ist ein Roman von Henri Barbusse, der darin seine eigenen Erfahrungen als Teilnehmer am Ersten Weltkrieg verarbeitete. Die episodenhafte Handlung des Buches erzählt in 24 Kapiteln die Geschichte einer Einheit von französischen Soldaten in den Schützengräben der Westfront. Authentizität zieht die Darstellung aus der Kriegsteilnahme und der damit verbundenen Zeugenschaft des Autors wie auch aus der narrativen Perspektive der ersten Person, die eine Identifikation des erzählerischen Ichs mit Barbusse selbst suggeriert. Die Lesart als "Tagebuch", die der Titel bereits nahelegt, gewinnt durch die Widmung an die gefallenen Kameraden bei aller Fiktionalisierung des Stoffes weiter an Plausibilität. Den realistisch anmutenden, teilweise drastischen Schilderungen von Leid und Sterben stehen jeweils zu Anfang und Ende des Romans unwirklich erscheinende Eindrücke oder Visionen gegenüber. Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) war ein französischer Politiker und Schriftsteller. Barbusse meldete sich bei Kriegsausbruch 1914 freiwillig zum Dienst in der französischen Armee. Bis zu seinem Dienstende 1916 verbrachte er insgesamt elf Monate an der Front; noch im Schützengraben sollen nach seiner Auskunft die ersten Skizzen zu "Das Feuer" entstanden sein. Noch im Erscheinungsjahr der Erstausgabe erhielt Barbusse den Prix Goncourt für sein Werk.
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<b>A la fin du XIXe siècle, la Compagnie des Salins du Midi se lance dans une vaste campagne de recrutement de mains d'oeuvre ouvrière. Parmi eux, Livio, un Italien qui a quitté son pays et la misère.</b> <br> <br>La Compagnie des Salins du Midi lance à l'été 1893 le recrutement des ouvriers pour le battage et le levage du sel. L'embauche est en réduction en raison de la crise économique que connaît l'Europe alors que la perspective de trouver un emploi saisonnier a attiré, cette année-là, un plus grand nombre d'ouvriers. Ceux-ci se partagent en trois catégories surnommées - les « Ardéchois », paysans, pas forcément originaires d'Ardèche, qui laissent leur terre le temps de la saison, - les « Piémontais » composés d'Italiens originaires de tout le nord de l’Italie et recrutés sur place par des chefs d'équipe, les chefs de colle, - les « trimards » composés en partie de vagabonds. Livio quittera son Italie natale, dans l'espoir d'une "autre"vie, sans misère. Les recruteurs sont venus dans son village. Comme beaucoup d'autres, il suivra... <br> <br> <b>Au travers du récit de la vie de Livio, découvrez l'histoire des ouvriers de la Compagnie des Salins du midi dans un roman historique complet et surprenant.</b> <br> <br>EXTRAIT <br> <br>Livio avait quitté Montaionne au lever du jour alors que le soleil commençait sa course là-bas derrière les cyprès qui barraient l’horizon. La casquette enfoncée sur le front, les coudes sur la barre d’appui de la fenêtre, il suivait des yeux la silhouette des arbres semblables aux quilles de bois sur le sable poussiéreux de la placette de son village, quand, les jours de fête, il les fusillait de loin avec la boule de buis patiné qui les couchait au sol avec un bruit mat. Il n’y avait pas de travail pour lui là-haut sur la colline. Tous les hommes étaient au chômage, et seuls, les vieux entretenaient leurs terres et parvenaient encore à nourrir les femmes et les enfants. <br>Marcello, son cousin, l’avait précédé de quelques jours dans le sud de la France, où il s’était engagé pour le battage du sel aux salins d’Aigues-Mortes. Il avait promis à Livio de le faire embaucher dès qu’il aurait rencontré le chef de bricole chargé du recrutement de son équipe. Pour les équipes italiennes, il était italien et pour les françaises, c’était un français. On ne se mélangeait jamais, une compétition enragée régnait entre les deux communautés. Appelés aussi chefs de cole, ces chefs d’équipe intransigeants menaient les hommes au maximum de leur rendement. Ce n’était pas la première campagne de Marcello. Voilà trois ans qu’il partait ainsi pour un mois ou deux faire la récolte du sel et les vendanges dans le sud de la France, et qu’il ramenait assez de sous pour faire vivre chichement sa famille jusqu’au prochain été. Le travail était pénible, mais bien payé, et même si les Italiens n’étaient pas les bienvenus, ils étaient travailleurs, avaient peu d’exigences, contrairement aux journaliers français noyautés pa...
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Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele the following year. The Good Soldier re-examines Haig's record in these battles and presents his predicament with a fresh eye. More importantly, it re-evaluates Haig himself, exploring the nature of the man, turning to both his early life and army career before 1914, as well as his unstinting work on behalf of ex-servicemen's organizations after 1918. Finally, in this definitive biography, the man emerges from the myth.
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A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world. In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War's centenary by reinvigorating these questions. The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium's legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for. Contributors include: Ali Smith - Scotland Ales Steger - Slovenia Jeanette Winterson - England Elif Shafak - Turkey NoViolet Bulawayo - Zimbabwe Colm Toibin - Ireland Xiaolu Guo - China Erwin Mortier - Belgium Kamila Shamsie - Pakistan Daniel Kehlmann - Germany 'Tender, compassionate humanity' Peter Conrad, Observer 'A global gathering of essayists here reimagine the war from a variety of vantage points' Guardian 'This superb collection of essays by some of today's leading writers stands out among the many books commissioned to mark the centenary of the First World War.' The Lady Lavinia Greenlaw's poetry includes The Casual Perfect and A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde. Other works include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. She was the first artist-in-residence at the Science Museum, and received the Ted Hughes Award for her sound work Audio Obscura. Her work for BBC radio includes documentaries about Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, the darkest place in England and Arctic light.
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1916 was a year of killing. The British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the Germans at Verdun. The garrison city in north-eastern France was the focus of a massive German attack; the French fought back ferociously, leading to a battle that would claim hundreds of thousands of lives and permanently scar the French psyche. To this day one can visit the site of ghost villages uninhabited since, but still cherished like shrines. Memories of Verdun would greatly influence military and political thinking for decades to come as both sides came away with memories of bravery, futility and horror. Malcolm Brown has produced a vivid new history of this epic clash; drawing on original illustrations and eye-witness accounts he has captured the spirit of a battle that defines the hell of warfare on the Western Front.
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The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives on the Kitchen Front. The rationing of food, clothing and other substances played a big part in making sure that everyone had a fair share of whatever was available. In this fascinating book, Katherine Knight looks at how experiences of rationing varied between rich and poor, town and country, and how ingenuous cooks often made a meal from poor ingredients. Charting the developments of the rationing programme throughout the war and afterwards, Spuds, Spam and Eating for Victory documents the use of substitutions for luxury ingredients not available, resulting in delicacies such as carrot jam and oatmeal sausages. The introduction of Spam in America in the forties led to this canned spiced pork and ham becoming an iconic symbol of the worse period of shortage in the twentieth century. Seventy years after the outbreak of the Second World War, this book listens to some of the people who were young during the conflict share their memories, both sad and funny, of what it was like to eat for Victory.
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A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed author Philip Purser-Hallard.A Mysterious DisappearanceIt is 1896, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating a self-proclaimed psychic who disappeared from a locked room, in front of several witnesses.While attempting to prove the existence of telekinesis to a scientific society, an alleged psychic, Kellway, vanished before their eyes during the experiment. With a large reward at stake, Holmes is convinced Kellway is a charlatan – or he would be, if he had returned to claim his prize. As Holmes and Watson investigate, the case only grows stranger, and they must contend with an interfering "occult detective" and an increasingly deranged cult. But when one of the society members is found dead, events take a far more sinister turn…
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