Jack London - Libros y biografía

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...

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and...

Jack London: König Alkohol - Memoiren eines Trinkers | Neu editierte 2022er Ausgabe, mit erklärenden Fußnoten | Jack London, der weltberühmte Autor von Abenteuerklassikern wie »Der Seewolf«, »Ruf der...

This special edition includes two Jack London's novels in their original 1903 and 1906 unabridged version : I - THE CALL OF THE WILD The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the struggle...

“The Cruise of the Dazzler” 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 Cruise of...

“A Daughter of the Snows” 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. A Daughter of...

“The Abysmal Brute” 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 Abysmal Brute is...

Jack London's novel "John Barleycorn" was published in 1913 as a series, later as a single book. London had completed the story in just two months. As the later added subtitle "Alcoholic Memoirs" indicates,...

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...

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who...

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...

"Meuterei auf der Elsinore" ist ein 1914 erschienener Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "The Mutiny of the Elsinore".

THE way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across...

"Michael der Bruder Jerrys" ist ein 1917 erschienener Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "Michael, Brother of Jerry".

"Der Seewolf" (englischer Originaltitel "The Sea-Wolf") ist ein 1904 erstmals erschienener Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Jack London (1876-1916). Das Buch wurde sogleich zum Bestseller.

Sämtliche in der Klassiker-Reihe der ofd edition veröffentlichten Werke wurden aufwendig neu editiert und der aktuellen Rechtschreibung angepasst. Die bessere Lesbarkeit und übersichtlichere Gestaltung...

The Unparalleled Invasion is a rare political anticipation short story written by Jack London and first published in McClure's in July 1910 and later in the book The Strength of the Strong (New York,...

In »König Alkohol« beschreibt Jack London seine Erfahrungen mit Alkohol von früher Jugend an. Im mittleren Erwachsenenalter bestimmte der Alkohol sein Leben beinahe vollständig. »König Alkohol« zeigt...

Der Hund Buck ist der Held des Bestsellers Ruf der Wildnis von Jack London. Buck, eine Mischung aus Bernhardiner und schottischem Schäferhund, führt in Kalifornien das geruhsame Leben eines Haushunds....

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...

It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime...

There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling...

"Die Insel Berande" ist ein 1911 erschienender Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "Adventure".

"The gods, the gods are stronger; time Falls down before them, all men's knees Bow, all men's prayers and sorrows climb Like incense toward them; yea, for these Are gods, Felise."

"Das Mondtal" ist ein 1913 erschienender Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "The Valley of the Moon".

Auf einer kleinen Südseeinsel haben sich mehrere Handelsschiffe eingefunden, um mit den eingeborenen Perlenfischern ins Geschäft zu kommen. Einer der Perlenfischer bietet eine besonders große und schöne...

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and...

"Ein Sohn der Sonne" ist ein 1912 erschienener Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "A Son of the Sun".

"Martin Eden" ist eines der größten Werke von Jack London. Der zum Teil autobiographische Roman erschien erstmals im Jahre 1909. Es ist die Geschichte eines ungebildeten, ungehobelten, jedoch weltklugen...

"This out of all will remain They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost."