Jack - Libros y biografía

Texas Rangers Jack Carson and Eddie Brand have been hunting outlaw Lope Gamboa for some time without success, but when they ride into Yuma it seems their luck has changed. An assignment of US gold is...

Pauite Hawk cat-walked out of the barn into the blazing noon sun, it had taken him six months to recover from being torture. But within days of regaining his feet his sixgun was flaming again having helped...

Cornwall has its own language, culture, outlook and a powerful individuality. Its scenery is unique in Britain and to see a remotely similar countryside one must travel across the sea to another Celtic...

Cash-hungry Nate Bannerman, unable to persua de his brother to sell the Lazy B, hires a look-alike killer to murder a young girl. Her half-blind father is the witnes s whose reluctant testimony gets his...

A classic tale of adventure at sea, The Sea-Wolf tells the story of the naïve young Humphrey van Weyden, whose ship is wrecked in a terrible storm. He is rescued by the mysterious Captain Wolf Larsen...

Amongst British diplomats, there's a poignant joke that 'Iran is the only country in the world which still regards the United Kingdom as a superpower'. For many Iranians, it's not a joke at all. The past...

Eighteen stories: a novelette, novellas, short stories and poems. Tales of human contact with the unexplainable and the unearthly; contacts that are on occasions deadly, frightening and sometimes enchanting,...

Acclaimed for his screenplays for TV dramas including Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a writer of unflinching, compassionate and often challenging...

Trouble was brewing from the moment Dan Clancy rode into Watts Bend. His chance meeting and early friendship with Lance Roebuck is threatened by Clancy's instant rapport with Lucy Bracken, commonly seen...

Jack Latimer has been sheriff since he stopped off at Beaver Creek, keen to put the horrors of the War behind him. For ten years he's been content to collect taxes, chase truants back to the schoolroom,...

Arkansas Smith: the name was legend. Once he had been a Texas Ranger, but now he was something else entirely. Some said he was an outlaw, a killer of men and fast draw. Others claimed he was a kind of...

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he...

Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z.Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about...

A troubled, disturbing but bleakly funny play from a leading writer of Channel 4's Shameless and Skins.Fanny and Faggot presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell: her trial when accused of...

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'...

Le Talon de fer (The Iron Heel) est un roman de Jack London paru en 1908. C'est une contre-utopie sur la montée d'une tyrannie fasciste aux États-Unis. Le Talon de fer décrit une insurrection qui serait...

Three fearless men are drawn into the endless battles of ancient Rome's Fiery War, fighting for power, for victory, for survival - and above all, for honour. Brennos, the barbarian leader of the Celtic...

Contains a number of lesser-known South Pacific tales. A SON OF THE SUN (excerpt) The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a...

Si sa: i re e gli eroi scolpiscono il proprio nome nella storia, gli infami muoiono. Dimenticati. Ma in quella tempesta di follia che avvolge il regno di Abadonia, gli infami sono anche quelli che sputano...

Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a...

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start...

Den ganzen Tag glitt die ‘Pyrenees’ mit ihrer Ladung lebenden Feuers durch die schäumende See. Bei Anbruch der Nacht wurden Oberbram- und Bramsegel eingezogen, und sie flog ins Dunkle hinein, während...

With the Stories:  BROWN WOLF - THAT SPOT - TRUST - ALL GOLD CANYON - THE STORY OF KEESH - NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - MAKE WESTING - THE HEATHEN - THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY - „JUST MEAT“...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story...

7 Secrets to Becoming an Influential Speaker is a book that was written and designed to help you become more influential. This book will help you develop skills that you can utilize throughout life. You...

Il richiamo della foresta è un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1903. La storia racconta le vicende del cane Buck, un incrocio tra un sanbernardo e un pastore scozzese, che vive insieme al suo padrone,...

Jack London (pseudonimo di John Griffith Chaney London, San Francisco, 1876) scrive questa Autobiografia alcoolica nei primi mesi del 1912, qualche anno prima della sua controversa e prematura morte,...

Ispirato da una storia vera, "Un ragazzo speciale" narra la storia di Jack Tardelli, ragazzo "normale" finché non si fanno risentire, all'improvviso, gli effetti nefasti del suo passato di consumatore...

It was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased....

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to...