Jack London: 1138 books

The Little Lady of the Big House (1915) is a novel by American writer Jack London. Biographer Clarice Stasz states that it is "not autobiography," but speaks of his "frank borrowing from his life with Charmian" and says it is "psychologically valid as a mirror of events during [the] winter [of 1912-13]....

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, ancora avvolta nel mistero: un'overdose “volontaria” di antidolorifici, un'intossicazione o un...

Sale with the iconic pirate-villains and outlaws, experience great sea adventures and dangerous treasure hunts! You will find it all in this passionately edited collection: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces...

Classic Jack London novel. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."

The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent...

As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes...

Croc-Blanc (1906) est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London. Le titre original est White Fang. L'histoire commence avant la naissance de Croc-Blanc, un chien loup. Le roman suit la meute d'où il vient et ses premières semaines de vie sauvage, sa lutte pour la vie; manger ou être mangé.

Knock Out reúne tres historias memorables: «Un bistec», quizás el mejor relato que se haya escrito sobre boxeo; «El mexicano», un clásico imprescindible de la narrativa de Jack London, y «El combate», novela de desenlace inesperado y verídico. Historias épicas donde el coraje y el sacrificio...

Of all sports, boxing has been the writers' favorite. Maybe it's because of his need for persistence and resilience, perhaps for the narratives of victory and defeat, perhaps even for the relatable solitude of the boxer who faces his challenge in the ring; boxing has inspired large pieces of fiction...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews).   Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest...

Everyone loves a good disaster story. Fire, famine, disease, war...the world as we know it might end in a million different ways. The Plague, Pestilence, and Apocalypse MEGAPACK™ explores some of the holocausts that might befall mankind, with a special emphasis on plagues (a personal favorite theme...

Poetic, swift with violence and action. 1 An Odyssey of the North 2 The Son of the Wolf 3 Law of Life 4 To Build a Fire 5 Love of Life 6 A Piece of Steak 7 Lost Face 8 The Heathen 9 The Wit of Porportuk 10 The Pearls of Parlay

Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (alcohol). There is much controversy about the cause of his death just as there is about alcoholism and addiction. London's brutally frank and honest analysis...

Martin Eden est un jeune marin au long cours. Sa vie est faite d'aventures, il aime la boisson, les filles, les bagarres. Jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Ruth Morse, jeune femme de la bonne bourgeoisie. Pour la séduire, il renonce à ses mauvaises habitudes, à ses mauvaises fréquentations. À force...