Jack London - Libros y biografía

A classic tale of adventure at sea, The Sea-Wolf tells the story of the naïve young Humphrey van Weyden, whose ship is wrecked in a terrible storm. He is rescued by the mysterious Captain Wolf Larsen...

Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its name from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his (American) Indian captors'...

Le Talon de fer (The Iron Heel) est un roman de Jack London paru en 1908. C'est une contre-utopie sur la montée d'une tyrannie fasciste aux États-Unis. Le Talon de fer décrit une insurrection qui serait...

Contains a number of lesser-known South Pacific tales. A SON OF THE SUN (excerpt) The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a...

Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a...

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start...

Den ganzen Tag glitt die ‘Pyrenees’ mit ihrer Ladung lebenden Feuers durch die schäumende See. Bei Anbruch der Nacht wurden Oberbram- und Bramsegel eingezogen, und sie flog ins Dunkle hinein, während...

With the Stories:  BROWN WOLF - THAT SPOT - TRUST - ALL GOLD CANYON - THE STORY OF KEESH - NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - MAKE WESTING - THE HEATHEN - THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY - „JUST MEAT“...

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...

Il richiamo della foresta è un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1903. La storia racconta le vicende del cane Buck, un incrocio tra un sanbernardo e un pastore scozzese, che vive insieme al suo padrone,...

Jack London (pseudonimo di John Griffith Chaney London, San Francisco, 1876) scrive questa Autobiografia alcoolica nei primi mesi del 1912, qualche anno prima della sua controversa e prematura morte,...

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....

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to...

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to...

Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny...

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." THE RED ONE (Excerpt) There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett...

Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The...

Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American writer Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on...

With the Stories:  Love of Life - The Story of Keesh - A Day's Lodging - Negore, The Coward - The Sun Dog Trail - The Unexpected - The White Man's Way - Brown Wolf

With the 7 Tales written by Jack London:    WHITE AND YELLOW - THE KING OF THE GREEKS - A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES - THE SIEGE OF THE „LANCASHIRE QUEEN“ -  CHARLEY‘S COUP - DEMETRIOS CONTOS - YELLOW...

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship. These are darker Pacific tales,...

Tales from the Klondike. Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: - The League of the Old Men - In the Forests of the North - The Law of Life - Nam-Bok...

Tales from Northland. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (excerpt) On every hand stretched the forest primeval,—the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with...

Jack London berichtet über seine Zeit als Tramp nach der Wirtschaftskrise gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Man lernt die Gefahren und Strapazen des Lebens als Landstreicher kennen. Von zentraler Bedeutung...

The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. It first appeared in September 1911 in Popular...

The Call of the Wild White Fang The Iron Heel The Sea-Wolf Martin Eden "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water...

An Autobiographical Novel from Adventure Writer Jack London“Is this flesh of yours you? Or is it an extraneous something possessed by you? Your body—what is it? A machine for converting stimuli into reactions.”-...

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

Romanzo che narra come Darrell Standing, un condannato a morte a San Quentin, trova il modo di "evadere" dalle torture e dalla carcerazione, viaggiando nello spazio e nel tempo. Libro in lingua originale...