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Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the right level from the very beginning.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Der Hund Buck verbringt ein gluckliches Leben in Kalifornien, bis er eines Tages gestohlen wird. Sein Schicksal scheint besiegelt, als er von nun an in der rauen, arktischen Wildnis als Schlittenhund uberleben muss. Ein harter Kampf gegen Kalte, Hunger und Gewalt bestimmt sein neues Leben. Wird Buck es schaffen, sich gegen seine Feinde durchzusetzen und sich aus seiner misslichen Lage zu befreien?show moreISBN: 9783852721538Nr pagini: 102 pagesFormat: 149 x 212 x 9mm | 193gAnul aparitiei: 01 Oct...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on...`Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, `White Fang\\'' tells the story of a young wolf-dog\\''s journey from the wild into human territory. As White Fang learns that civilisation is every bit as vicious and violent as nature - and that survival is only awarded to the fittest - we too see how instinc...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.''Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck''s natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works...

The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers ...

The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure, Humphrey Van Weyden, and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner, Wolf Larsen, who rescues Van Weyde...