作者	（美）杰克·伦敦（London,J.） 著
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出版时间	2006-04-01

特色：
世界文学名著表现了作者所描述的特定时代的文化，读后带给人的除了流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画外，更多的是对那个时期历史文化的回味和体会。本书由专门研究西方发展史、西方文化的专家学者，专业的翻译人员，精心挑选了这几部可以代表西方文学的著作，听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友建议，人做注释，不做删节，不做任何人为的改动，严格按照原著的风格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，让读者去自由地阅读、想象和发挥。无形中，你会发现，自己的英语水平已经有了很大幅度的提高，不仅是词汇语法，更多的是对英文、对西方文化的整体了解。

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater 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 muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. 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,halfhidden 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 vine-clad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses,long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. 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. And over this great demense Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels,or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless--strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, whoyel