Jack - Libros y biografía

Unter dem Eindruck einer mehr als zweijährigen Weltreise, die Jack London mit seiner Yacht "Snark" unternommen hatte, schrieb er eine Reihe von Romanen und Erzählungen, die von Abenteuern in der Südsee...

"Drei Sonnen am Himmel" ist eine Sammlung von zwischen 1904 und 1907 erschienenden Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Die englischen Originaltitel lauten "The...

"Südsee-Geschichten" ist eine 1911 erschienene Sammlung von Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "South Sea Tales". Inhaltsverzeichnis:...

The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones. There are butterflies in the sunshine, and from everywhere arises the drowsy hum of bees. It is so...

An undercover cop was executed on the banks of river Alz in Bavaria. Leo Schwartz and his colleagues of Mühldorf Police department are searching for the killer. During their investigations, they stumble...

Christopher Bellew ist der Hauptcharakter in »Alaska-Kid« von Jack London. Bellew beitet als schlecht bezahlter Reporter bei einer Zeitung in San Francisco. Das Blatt ist defizitär und Bellew leidet unter...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes...

"Jerry der Insulaner" ist ein 1917 erschienener Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Der englische Originaltitel lautet "Jerry of the Islands".

Jack London selbst war als junger Erwachsener gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ein »Abenteurer des Schienenstranges«. Die autobiographische Erzählung berichtet vom risikoreichen Leben als blinder Passagier...

"Ruf der Wildnis" (Originaltitel: "The Call of the Wild") ist ein Roman von Jack London. In dem Werk beschreibt der Schriftsteller - aus der Sicht eines Hundes - das harte Leben zur Zeit des Klondike-Goldrausches...

Sämtliche in der Klassiker-Reihe der ofd edition veröffentlichten Werke wurden aufwendig neu editiert und der aktuellen Rechtschreibung angepasst. Die bessere Lesbarkeit und übersichtlichere Gestaltung...

Jack Londons »Südsee-Geschichten« basieren auf dessen eigenen Reiseerfahrungen in der Südsee. Jack London hat die exotische Inselwelt intensiv bereist. Er erzählt in seinen Geschichten meist vom Umgang...

Two explosions at the same time. In two different cities. Ex-US Navy-turned-investigator Thomas J Cooper knows this is no random coincidence. This is a carefully planned attack calling...

The timeless Higgins classic, available in ebook format for the first time. In the depths of a cavernous of concert hall, a gifted psychopath plots and waits, his thoughts on nothing but music...

For Harry Youngblood, escaping from prison is going to be easy. But escaping his past could cost him his life… Twenty years inside for one third of a million pounds: that was the price...

A story of passion and heroism from a violent land – Mexico in the 1920s… …a place and a time when life was cheap and survival was for those who fought dirtiest. A year after the Revolution,...

The classic bestseller from the master of the game Harry Manning had fled the Cuban revolution, sacrificing everything for freedom and seeking solace on the tranquil waters of the Bahamas. For...

The very first novel written by Jack Higgins, re-packaged to celebrate 50 years of bestsellerdom. He guesses it's around 3am. Gun runner and occasional smuggler Mark Hagen, hears a scream through...

A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre – the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another...

A classic thriller from Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of adrenalin packed adventure and the bestselling author of ‘The Eagle has Landed’ It’s 1963 and the eve of John F.Kennedy’s historic...

Born in the United States but separated since they were boys, twin brothers Max and Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when the Second World War broke out, Max as one of the Luftwaffe’s...

COMING HOME, from veteran SF author Jack McDevitt, brings together interstellar travel, an 8,000-year-old mystery, and a dramatic mission to rescue 3,000 stranded spaceship passengers . 'The logical heir...

Ruben Prien is still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to adjust events... to interfere, some might say, with destiny. Once again, his conduit to that...

Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia;...

Twenty-first-century Moscow. Luther and Jake have a mission - to steal the experimental transferral device from under the nose of the Dream Team.It's a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong....

Arrabus on the planet Wyst is an "egalistic" nation, where everyone is supposedly equal to everyone else. Arrabins work only two hours per week ("drudge"), which is drawn at random each week. In return,...

Sam Houston Kellington had from boyhood known that he would someday fly to Mars. But what children dream of is often far different in reality from what one could ever imagine. Having been chosen as one...

The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric,...

The Rapparee is Jack Vance's preferred title for the novel previously published as The Space Pirate and The Five Gold Bands.Five gold bracelets imprinted with cryptic messages were the clues that set...

With the guidance of the Gray Prince, the fierce Uldrans prepare to reclaim their rule over the planet Koryphon, seizing power from the hands of the aristocratic Outkers.