Jack - Libros y biografía

“The Iron Heel” 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 Iron Heel is a science...

“The Sea-Wolf” 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 Sea-Wolf is a psychological...

“The Acorn-planter: A California Forest Play” is a play 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....

This edition includes the following editor's analysis: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published in 1913, “The Night-Born” is a collection of ten short...

A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of forests and stretches...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. It was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada,...

Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping...

The Sea-Wolf: Illustrated by Jack London; Illustrated by W. J. Aylward, was published in 1904. Powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor...

Alaska Kid von Jack London (englischer Originaltitel: Smoke Bellew) und Kid & Co sind zwei Sammlungen von Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Jack London, die 1912 als Serie für den...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series...

La dea della Fortuna proveniente dalla dimensione in cui vive per visitare la terra da cui manca da secoli durante il passaggio tra le dimensioni perde la memoria, la sua sola presenza è sufficiente ad...

He was an elderly white man who was terribly unwell. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage whose lobes had been punctured and stretched till one had torn out, and the other carried...

JERRY is an Irish dog who has been on a lot of adventures. Born in one of the Solomon Islands, he quickly gets to know the guy known as Skipper as his master. Jerry considers Skipper to be a god. To others,...

A whaleboat crew discovers Michael, a friendly, gentle dog, on the shore and believes he may be transformed into a valuable show dog. However, such a project cannot be undertaken without causing harm...

Francis Morgan is a jaded young New Yorker, the affluent heir of businessman and Wall Street mastermind Richard Henry Morgan. Francis believes it's a great idea when his father's business colleague Thomas...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work Originally published in 1914, "The Strength of the Strong" is a collection...

Un investigatore privato conosce una ricca e capricciosa ereditiera che lo accompagnerà alla ricerca di tesori rubati in una serie di fantasmagoriche avventure che li vedrà in giro per il mondo.

The strong, independent, well-educated heroine that would run through much of London's work is introduced in his debut novel. Jack London's feminine ideal, Frona Welse, returns to the barren north of...

It traces the establishment of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States and is often regarded as "the first of the modern Dystopian." It is, without a doubt, the work in which Jack London's socialist...

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...

Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and sisters. He adds to his income by taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. He is due to be married to Genevieve, who works...

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides...

O sexto volume dos Mistérios de Slim Hardy.Após quase um ano fora do jogo, o antigo soldado, que agora é investigador privado, John ”Slim” Hardy aceita um caso que espera ser um tranquilo retorno na calma...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published in 1905, “The Game” is a novella by American author...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published two years after his death in 1918, “The Red One” contains...

"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain." Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not...

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...

Dans ce récit plein d’humour et d’espérance, frère Jack nous raconte quelques-unes de ses incroyables aventures. Suivant la grande tradition franciscaine, il part régulièrement en mission avec un autre...

Una grande avventura, un giallo che porta il lettore a scoprire il mondo incantato delle grandi navi da criciera. Jack Parson, scrittore famoso, si ritriverà a pagare il prezzo della sua popolarita in...

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...