Jack, London - Libros y biografía

Martin Eden è un romanzo del 1909 dell'autore americano Jack London su un giovane proletario autodidatta che lotta per diventare uno scrittore. Fu serializzato per la prima volta sulla rivista The Pacific...

Verhalen van de Zuidzee (1911) is een verzameling korte verhalen geschreven door Jack London. De meeste verhalen spelen zich af in eilandgemeenschappen, zoals die van Hawaï, of spelen zich af aan boord...

Illustrated: Features 20 stunning illustrations, bringing the story's vivid scenes and characters to life. Includes a Detailed Summary: A captivating overview of the story for a quick refresher or...

"C’était la technique de combat des loups : frapper et reculer d’un bond. Mais ce ne fut pas tout. Trente ou quarante huskies accoururent sur les lieux et formèrent autour des combattants un cercle attentif...

Dans le Grand Nord sauvage et glacé, un jeune loup apprend à lutter pour la vie. Les premiers hommes qu'il rencontre, des Indiens, le baptisent Croc-Blanc. Auprès d'eux, il connaît la chaleur du feu de...

Des livres de Jack London, il y en a beaucoup. Mais les grands livres de cet auteur se comptent sur les doigts des deux mains. Depuis 1925, personne n'avait jamais retraduit cet immense roman, pas même...

« Il attendit le crépuscule pour quitter les fourrés et il joua entre les arbres en savourant sa liberté. Mais tout à coup, il se rendit compte de sa solitude. Il s’assit et, perturbé, il écouta le silence...

1897, dans les glaces du Grand Nord. Depuis quelque temps, Buck, le chien de traîneau, capte un étrange appel. Il hésite, puis cède et s'enfonce dans la forêt. Quand il revient au camp, il ne trouve qu'un...

Dans l'infini glacé du Grand Nord, rares sont ceux qui échappent à la sauvagerie. Né mi-loup mi-chien, Croc-Blanc expérimente une dure lutte pour sa survie. Tué ou être tué, la règle est simple, instinctive,...

I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain...

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was...

She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent...

London's first novel introduces the strong, independent, well-educated heroine that would run through much of his work. Frona Welse, Jack London's feminine ideal, returns to the desolate north of Canada...

Under this title the author has grouped eight short stories. The tale which gives the book its name is a description of a man dying in the wilds of the Northwest by slow starvation. The concluding story,...

Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can...

The Human Drift -- Small-Boat Sailing -- Four Horses and a Sailor -- Nothing that Ever Came to Anything -- That Dead Men Rise up Never -- A Classic of the Sea -- A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) -- The...

Two men exactly alike in appearance, hunting for a treasure in the South sea islands, start the complication in this scenario novel. Graphic, clear and thrilling in style and with much of the old charm.

The House of Pride Koolau the Leper Good-bye, Jack Aloha Oe Chun Ah Chun The Sheriff of Kona

She gazed at him -- and saw two men, not one, within this man she loved. One was the fresh, boyish Joe, with tenderness in his eyes and hesitancy in his touch and smile . . . And the other was the tense...

The Scarlet Plague is a futuristic novel by Jack London, set in San Francisco after an epidemic, the Red Death, has ravaged the planet. The main character, James Howard Smith, sees the diminished society...

London's classic novel about a boy who dreams that he was living the life of an early hominid.

A collection of short stories about life in island communities and about ships exploring the south seas.

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was...

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was...

The class struggle -- The tramp -- The scab -- The question of the maximum -- A review -- Wanted: a new law of development -- How I became a socialist

Dystopian Plague Classic! The year is 2072, and the earth has been depopulated by a plague epidemic that struck in 2013. The victims of the scarlet plague are dead within an hour or less of the first...

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for...

Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted...

These letters embody the suppositious correspondence of a poet and a scientist. The letters of both are in a somewhat high-flown and impossible manner. Although the subjects treated, love and marriage,...

JERRY is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of...