Jack London: - Libros y biografía

Political fiction novel, which tells the rise of a dictatorial oligarchy in the United States and the struggle of the nascent American Socialist Party against injustices, abuses and oppression perpetrated...

L’opera dimenticata del grande scrittore americano. Mentre altri autori suoi contemporanei si limitavano a cantare ciecamente le glorie dell’impero Britannico, allora giunto al suo massimo fulgore, London,...

“Smoke” Bellew sembra avere ottenuto quel che voleva, l’oro, e insieme al suo amico Shorty trascorre il tempo nel gelido Klondike cercando costantemente di rimpinguare la sua ricchezza. Per uno come lui,...

Kit Bellew, pigro rampollo di una famiglia agiata di San Francisco, coltiva con scarso successo i propri talenti artistici, vivendo di rendita. Quando O’Hara – un suo vecchio amico – decide di solleticarne...

Buck is a mongrel between a Saint Bernard and a Collie, who is kidnapped and sold as a sled dog in Alaska, where, with spirit of adaptation will be able to impose itself as lead dog, until the final freedom...

The protagonist wakes up child in a strange land in the Paleolithic era. At the side of his friend Lop-Ear and the Tree People will be engaged in a struggle for survival and against the violence of the...

Un romanzo di avventura per mare, vissuto direttamente dall'autore, salpato nel 1907 dalla baia di San Francisco a bordo di imbarcazione di 45 piedi, lo Snark. Viene narrata l'avventuroso viaggio attraverso...

Frona Welse, Jack London's feminine ideal, returns to the desolate north of Canada and meets Vance Corliss. An adventure novel of the first order. 

Zanna Bianca è uno dei più famosi romanzi dello scrittore statunitense Jack London, pubblicato la prima volta nel 1906. Considerato uno dei classici della letteratura per ragazzi, narra le avventure di...

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 06/09/2018.   La storia è ambientata nella Valle dello Yukon, Nord-Ovest Canadese, alla fine dei tempi della corsa all’oro. Zanna Bianca, unico sopravvissuto di una cucciolata, è...

The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the...

Martin Eden est un jeune marin au long cours. Sa vie est faite d'aventures, il aime la boisson, les filles, les bagarres. Jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Ruth Morse, jeune femme de la bonne bourgeoisie....

"Il vagabondo delle stelle" è l’ultimo romanzo di Jack London: originale, superlativo, “fantastico”. Racconta la storia di Darrell Standing, un professore universitario incarcerato per omicidio. Condannato...

Cinque splendidi racconti con un unico denominatore comune: la morte. Declinata in ogni sua variante, avventurosa, eroica, addirittura fantastica, la morte ritorna in questi autentici gioielli d'autore,...

Une étonnante nouvelle d'anticipation politique écrite en 1910. A lire...  

Croc-Blanc (1906) est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London. Le titre original est White Fang. L'histoire commence avant la naissance de Croc-Blanc, un chien loup. Le roman suit la meute d'où il...

The novel is initially set in California, in the sunny Santa Clara Valley, in 1897. The dog Buck, the son of a male Saint Bernard and a Scottish Shepherd mother, lives in the large villa of a magistrate,...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work Published posthumously in 1919, “On the Makaloa Mat” is a collection...

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...

"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."

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'...

Il libro riporta alla luce la straordinaria raccolta dei discorsi politici di Jack London, che offrono al lettore un'inedita versione dello scrittore quale sapiente interprete dei fenomeni di industrializzazione...

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...

From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o’clock the tug was to have taken...

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...

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...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's...

“Lost Face” 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. Lost Face is a collection of...

“Love of Life & Other Stories” 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. Love...

“Martin Eden” 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. Martin Eden is a 1909 novel...