Jack - Libros y biografía

Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny...

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." THE RED ONE (Excerpt) There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett...

Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The...

Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American writer Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on...

With the Stories:  Love of Life - The Story of Keesh - A Day's Lodging - Negore, The Coward - The Sun Dog Trail - The Unexpected - The White Man's Way - Brown Wolf

With the 7 Tales written by Jack London:    WHITE AND YELLOW - THE KING OF THE GREEKS - A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES - THE SIEGE OF THE „LANCASHIRE QUEEN“ -  CHARLEY‘S COUP - DEMETRIOS CONTOS - YELLOW...

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship. These are darker Pacific tales,...

Tales from the Klondike. Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: - The League of the Old Men - In the Forests of the North - The Law of Life - Nam-Bok...

Tales from Northland. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (excerpt) On every hand stretched the forest primeval,—the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with...

Jack London berichtet über seine Zeit als Tramp nach der Wirtschaftskrise gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Man lernt die Gefahren und Strapazen des Lebens als Landstreicher kennen. Von zentraler Bedeutung...

The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. It first appeared in September 1911 in Popular...

The Call of the Wild White Fang The Iron Heel The Sea-Wolf Martin Eden "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water...

Alex Petroski, d'11 anys, viu amb la seva mare i el seu gos, que ha anomenat Carl Saga en honor al seu heroi, el conegut astrònom que el 1977 va enviar a l'espai el Voyager per contactar amb vida extraterrestre....

"Sie werden nicht schlafen, bis Sie AGENT NULL zu Ende gelesen haben. Ein erstklassiges Werk, mit einer Reihe von gut entwickelten, sehr genießenswerten Figuren. Die Beschreibung der Action-Szenen befördert...

Après la misère et la pauvreté, la Seconde Guerre mondiale inflige à Théodora une profonde blessure : son fiancé, le résistant Gustave Novotný, meurt. Malgré son mariage avec un médecin, Jaromir Střílka,...

An Autobiographical Novel from Adventure Writer Jack London“Is this flesh of yours you? Or is it an extraneous something possessed by you? Your body—what is it? A machine for converting stimuli into reactions.”-...

When Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, made his album debut with The Slim Shady LP in the spring of 1999, he evoked an immediate and controversial response. Although album sales went platinum...

Questo secondo volume della collana "Parsonage" (la quale propone in italiano tutti gli inediti scritti dello scienziato, stregone, libertino e polemista politico Jack Parsons) è un'antologia di testi...

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

Romanzo che narra come Darrell Standing, un condannato a morte a San Quentin, trova il modo di "evadere" dalle torture e dalla carcerazione, viaggiando nello spazio e nel tempo. Libro in lingua originale...

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...

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...

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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'...

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from local papers interviewed me, and the interviews, when published, were pathological...

A number of lesser-known South Pacific tales.

"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...

Stories set on the San Francisco Bay of London's youth, including "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates."