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Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

The Timeless Tale of Survival in the Wild North

by Jack London

Stolen from the warmth of a California home, Buck is thrust into the unforgiving wilderness of the Yukon. There, amid snowstorms, sled teams, and desperate gold seekers, he must fight for survival in a world ruled by strength and cunning. Gradually, the comforts of civilization fall away, and the ancient voice of the wild begins to call him. With vivid scenes of the Klondike frontier, The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London’s most powerful tales of nature, courage, and transformation. This is the English-language hardcover edition of the novel. Jack London. The Call of the Wild. The Call of the Wild was first published in serial form in The Saturday Evening Post in 1903. The first book edition was published by Macmillan, New York, in 1903. Vollständige Neuausgabe, 1. Auflage, Göttingen 2026. LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag