Jack - Libros y biografía

Eravamo seduti, io e i due vecchi indiani, presso ad un fuoco che doveva proteggerci col suo fumo dagli assalti delle zanzare. A destra, sotto di noi, a venti piedi dalla sponda che si sgretolava, scorrevano...

Il richiamo della foresta è il primo romanzo di Jack London.  «Nel "Richiamo della foresta" London rivela la propria fede nell'evoluzionismo biologico e nell'onnipotenza dell'ambiente; ma, nonostante...

Es benötigte wohl den Abstand einiger Jahre, um Jack die Erkenntnis gewinnen zu lassen, dass da wohl doch einiges schiefgelaufen war in seinem Leben. Anders kann er sich das nicht erklären, dass er sein...

Es benötigte wohl den Abstand einiger Jahre, um Jack die Erkenntnis gewinnen zu lassen, dass da wohl doch einiges schiefgelaufen war in seinem Leben. Anders kann er sich das nicht erklären, dass er sein...

Nelle stupende isole delle Hawaii non fa mai né troppo freddo né troppo caldo. Eppure qualcosa di malvagio si annida in questo straordinario paesaggio. Qualcosa in grado di fiaccare anche l’uomo più grosso,...

Una volta terminato quello che lui definiva il suo «ranch delle meraviglie», con l’aiuto di Eliza Shepard, Jack London si sentiva finalmente pronto per un viaggio lungo tre mesi e millecinquecento miglia...

In un gelido mattino d’inverno un uomo lascia il sentiero dello Yukon per andare a incontrare in serata i suoi soci in una miniera. È accompagnato solo da un grosso husky, il cui istinto suggerisce all’animale...

The voices of humans and animals, living and dead, clamour for the reader's attention in Meat Songs. Headlice roam their strange habitat, a severed pig's head questions an undergraduate's choices, and...

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...

Native Hawaiians have long been confused by the history they learn at school, which doesn't match up with the family stories they have heard so often from their elders. Drawing on oral histories and personal...

This essay, the second in Jack Kelly's series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, frames a historic alliance that would shape the future of Hawaii – between the famed British explorer Captain George...

Best Play - Evening Standard Awards - 2023 1964: Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of...

WELCOME TO NANOLAND, where all your dreams can come true. But when those dreams turn deadly, survival becomes the ultimate fantasy.Nanoland brings legendary filmmaker Frank Nano's creative vision to life...

Mel Taylor is a freelance corporate spy. She is the person people in lofty offices call when they need someone to go and well spy on the other guys. Mel might be the best in the game due to her small...

The unforgivable sin. An ex-minister. A created savior. The war between heaven and hell has begun… With a past shrouded in secrets and a future hidden in lies, a supernatural force awakes within the small...

Après avoir remporté un gain extraordinaire lors d’un jeu de hasard, un jeune couple se voit piégé dans un tourbillon infernal de chantage machiavélique. Ce cauchemar, qui avait débuté comme un rêve,...

 The sequel to the novel, China Laid Bare, which describes the author's time living in Germany."I often tried to think of words to describe the German people. The best I could come up with was weirdly...

Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling,...

I met him first in a hurricane; and though we had gone through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes on him. Without doubt...

This Excellent Collection brings together Jack London's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jack London's Most important...

There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I...

It's 1958 and the little county seat of Rouen is a long way from the gritty Los Angeles beat newspaper reporter Roy Cutter was working before he was fired. But he's forced to return to his hometown and...

Deemed "a story of great sweetness and sadness and lots of fun along the way" and "an exceptional read" by a judge in the Writer's Digest Self-Published ebook Awards, Tuesday's Caddie is painted against...

It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and the whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to spring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame....

Liberty hangs by a thread. Only one woman stands between democracy and its darkest adversary: FBI Special Agent Maria Gonzalez—the embodiment of courage and justice.Gonzalez races against time when Senator...

A teacher and her young students use whispers and wishes to turn a school lockdown into something positive — a quiet journey of the imagination and a lesson on treasuring childhood regardless of the situation.

Based on an actual occurrence, this comic is a super accurate and totally true account of one day at one of my former jobs. A customer decides to make trouble to the employee. What happens next? Does...

Laugh Out Loud: Harness the Transformative Power of LaughterIn these challenging times, where global crises and personal stressors collide, laughter remains an essential, yet often underappreciated, remedy. "Laugh...

This entertaining and adventurous historical novel incorporates the coming-of-age theme into an ancient era, that of 30,001 BC. Set in a tribal African community during the Stone Age, a young man named...

Ces huit nouvelles de Jack London publiées en 1899 relatent les aventures des trappeurs et des mineurs du Grand Nord, dans des conditions de vie extrêmes et un milieu hostile où seuls les plus forts survivront.