Jack London - Libros y biografía

Pearl buyer Charley has just boarded Petite Jeanne, a ship that is supposed to sail from Rangiroa to Tahiti. Charley starts to worry when some of the passengers get a smallpox – and die because of it....

Old Long-Beard is an early caveman who wears bearskin and eats with his hands. His life might seem simple, but the truth is something different – his society was once complex and advanced. One day he...

Jack London grew up in abject poverty, scraping by through a combination of both legal and under-the-table ways of making money since he was a boy. He was a sailor and at one point became swept up in...

Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years. So what do you do when an insanely talented hunter and storyteller describes how he just killed one? Thomas Stevens is a skillful hunter, but his storytelling...

'To Build a Fire' is one of Jack London's ('White Fang, 'The Call of the Wild') most cherished short stories. Drawn from London's personal experiences, we follow an unnamed narrator taking his first steps...

Loretta is a young woman, and seriously heartbroken. She seeks for comfort in her older sister Daisy. Daisy's husband decides to send Loretta to live with another couple; that way Loretta will gain enough...

Michael is a good natured Irish-terrier forced to be a slave hunter on a schooner in the Solomon Islands. His life changes forever when he is accidentally forgotten on a desert island only to be abducted...

'Lost Face' is a collection of seven brilliant short stories by acclaimed author Jack London. The eponymous opening story 'Lost Face' follows a cruel fur trapper named Subienkow in the frosty Yukon in...

Two white men. Gold on indigenous land. An indigenous chief who is tired of exploitation. Based upon Jack London's own experiences with the Klondike gold rush in 1987, 'The God of His Fathers' is a collection...

Move over, Karl Marx, because the latest incarnation of Super Socialist – Hero of the Working Class, Jack London, is here to pick up the Red Torch of Revolution and smite the evils of capitalism in a...

In Jack London's short story "In the Forests of the North," two cultures clash with grave consequences. Explorers discover unmapped territory far in the North, where they encounter an Eskimo settlement...

In the short story "The League of the Old Men" by Jack London, an old Native American man called Imber steps forth before the law and reveals that he has slayed numerous people. As his story unfolds,...

In "The Sickness of Lone Chief" by Jack London, the once-mighty Lone Chief has fallen far from his glory days and describes the memorable events that made him rise to power long ago. Although he was once...

In Jack London's short story "Li Wan, The Fair," a woman called Li Wan is journeying a long trail with her husband, a commanding Native American named Canim. When they come across a settlement of gold...

"Keesh, the Son of Keesh" is a short story by Jack London on a love that requires sacrifices. Keesh, the chief of the Thlunget people, wants to trade goods for the hand of Su-Su, who is the daughter of...

'The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii' is an inspired collection of six short stories set in a fascinating time in Hawaiian history. It is a heartfelt collection, as the stories deal with colonisation,...

Yukon was not a place for only the gold miners – there were dozens of different indigenous tribes living in the area. 'Children of the Frost' is a short story collection by Jack London, and most of its...

An ancestors legacy. The promise of gold. The excitement of adventure. Who could resist? When young heir Francis Morgan receives an offer to hunt for the lost treasure of his ancestor, the pirate Henry...

The relationship between indigenous people and American settlers has historically been a strained one, and California's Sonoma Valley is no exception. Red Cloud is a local indigenous man who yearns for...

John Pathurst, a successful playwright has run out of inspiration, New York, fame, women and the arts have lost it's lustre. In a desperate grab for inspiration he books passage on a cargo ship from Baltimore...

'A Daughter of the Snows' is acclaimed author Jack London's debut novel as well as the novel that began his trademark passion for the frozen Yukon. In this powerful debut, we follow Frona Welse, an incredibly...

Desde o seu nascimento, Caninos Brancos aprende as leis de sua matilha: comer ou ser comido. Em sua luta pela sobrevivência, o cão-lobo é confrontado com a violência do mundo dos homens... Será que o...

Pack away Danielle Steele, the vicar and the lonely housewife and take this little number to bed because Jack London and Anna Strunsky are dropping ample late-Victorian arguments about love and sex –...

L’auteur de Croc-Blanc et de L’Appel de la forêt, parmi dix-neuf romans et cent cinquante nouvelles, fut aussi, on le sait moins, un pionnier du journalisme de sport. Cet ouvrage, présenté par Benoît...

A group of desperate prospectors, hungry and exhausted. Will the promise of gold keep them from each other's throats?It's the late 1800s, and thousands are flocking to Canada's Klondike region in the...

Emil Gluck was a scientific genius, who had just gone to the electric chair because of the terrible, terrible things he had done between the years 1933 and 1941. However, life had not always been easy...

A tale of literal and proverbial gold diggers.Not the incel manifesto you might expect, "Scorn of Women" is one of Jack London's rare attempts at playwriting, being a three-act adaptation of his short...

Howard Knox is a congressman who wants to expose local corruption. One of the men involved is a businessman called Anthony Starkweather – and he is ready to do anything to stop Knox from having his speech....

Just how did we become the dominant species on the planet? Master storyteller Jack London considers the answer in "The Human Drift". Tracing humankind's journey over the centuries, he examines the many...

Set on a plantation in the Solomon islands in the 1900s this gripping novel explores the themes of domination, racial inequality, the emancipation of women and the strength of the human spirit. The backdrop...