Jack London - Libros y biografía

A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of forests and stretches...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. It was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada,...

Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping...

The Sea-Wolf: Illustrated by Jack London; Illustrated by W. J. Aylward, was published in 1904. Powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor...

Alaska Kid von Jack London (englischer Originaltitel: Smoke Bellew) und Kid & Co sind zwei Sammlungen von Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Jack London, die 1912 als Serie für den...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work Originally published in 1914, "The Strength of the Strong" is a collection...

In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And in the end he was known...

Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and sisters. He adds to his income by taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. He is due to be married to Genevieve, who works...

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published in 1905, “The Game” is a novella by American author...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published two years after his death in 1918, “The Red One” contains...

"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain." Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not...

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day...

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work Originally published in 1911, “The Abysmal Brute” is a novel by American...

Un uomo nutre un odio innaturale contro un vicino; una vendetta maturata per anni trova sfogo nel modo più inaspettato. E ancora, una rivalità di una vita si traduce in un esperimento al di là del verosimile,...

Altro grande successo di Jack London, pubblicato inizialmente a puntate tra l'autunno e la primavera del 1906, 'Zanna Bianca' è anche uno dei grandi classici della letteratura per ragazza della produzione...

Nato come racconto a puntate per la rivista 'Pacific Monthly' a cavallo tra il 1908 e il 1909, fu poi pubblicato come romanzo l'anno successivo. È la storia di un ragazzo di umili origini, che lavora...

It was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased. He...

Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor—two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published in 1914, "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" is a maritime...

"You hear me, Saxon? Come on along. What if it is the Bricklayers? I'll have gentlemen friends there, and so'll you. The Al Vista band'll be along, an' you know it plays heavenly. An' you just love dancin'—-"...

“The Call of the Wild” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Call of the Wild...

“Adventure” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The novel explores the themes...

“Before Adam” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Before Adam is a novel by...

“Children of the Frost” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Children of the...

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.-Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this...

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.—Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story...

Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low...