Jack - Libros y biografía

The captain of a cargo ship sailing from Seattle to Cape Horn dies suddenly. Immediately will start a battle for succession which will split the crew into two factions. Hostility and storms will not thwart...

Between adventure tale and social justice tract, depicts the conditions and the exploitation of indigenous working in the plantations of the Solomon Islands.

Martin Eden is a sailor almost illiterate in love for Ruth Morse, a young middle-class, begins a passionate and difficult period of study to become a writer. Before mocked and mistreated by everyone,...

David Grief is a rich English adventurer of forty years. His wealth is spread between several islands in the South Pacific that require him to travel frequently and live numerous adventures.

On a ranch in Northern California, evening parties and arguments that range from philosophy, music, poetry and breeding, are the backdrop for a love triangle starring Dick Forrest, a rancher-poet, his...

An adventure novel oversea personally lived by the author, set sailed from the San Francisco Bay aboard a 45 foot boat in 1907, the Snark. He narrates the adventurous journey across the Pacific lasted...

Darrell Standing, a death row inmate at San Quentin, finds a way to "escape" from the torture and imprisonment, traveling in space and time.

Il vagabondo delle stelle è un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1915. Narra la storia di un professore universitario, Darrell Standing, detenuto nel carcere di San Quentin per l'omicidio del professor...

Bilingual edition. First italian edition. In the wilderness In the land of the Yukon Jack London's wilderness is shaping the man and his thoughts. The opposite is not given and the results are often...

Scritto da Jack London intorno al 1910 e ambientato nell'Alaska battuta dai cercatori d'oro, 'Radiosa Aurora' è il soprannome di un minatore: avventuriero, dal fisico possente, capace di mettere in pochi...

Questo è l'ultimo romanzo pubblicato in vita da Jack London. Ancora una volta, come in altri testi londoniani, il tema centrale è la ricerca di una vita in armonia con la natura. La storia, che si svolge...

Un des chefs d'oeuvre de Jack London, un grand classique de la littérature de jeunesse. Buck, un croisé de terre-neuve et de colley âgé de 4 ans et demi et pesant 70 kg, appartient à un magistrat de la...

Francis Morgan, heir to a Wall Street expert, tired of New York decides to leave for Central America in search of a treasure that is believed to have belonged to an ancestor. During his trip he will meet...

Jerry is a six-month old Irish Terrier. Loyal and intelligent, lives peacefully in a plantation in the Solomon Islands with their parents. When Mr. Higgins, his beloved owner, gives him to captain Van...

Joe Fleming makes his living as a sail maker and taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. For love of Genevieve he promises to abandon the world of matches, but not before one last fight, the day...

Frona Welse, born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford, is a strong and courageous woman fought by men. After upsetting her community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute...

Joe Bronson, after being scolded by his father for failing an exam, decides to join the crew of the Dazzler, the captain and Frisco Kid, a boy of about Joe's age. Soon will realize he made a terrible...

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...