| Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598180754 ISBN-13: 9781598180756 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Written in 1915, "Michael, Brother of Jerry," is one of Jack London's "dog" novels and tells the story of a good-natured and very intelligent Irish Terrier named Michael and his many adventures and encounters with four-legged creatures and two-legged "gods" at sea and on land. In the book's preface, London makes a passionate plea for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Talking of the training of animals for performance, he says, "It was a body of cruelty so horrible that I am confident no normal person exists who, once aware of it, could ever enjoy looking on at any trained-animal turn." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): London, Jack: - "John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," and "Love of Life." He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen," and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf." |