London: 1942 books

Le Vagabond des étoiles (titre original : The Star Rover) est un roman fantastique de l'écrivain américain Jack London, publié en 1915. Jack London ne cessera de dénoncer la brutalité des prisons. Il écrira dans son roman autobiographique Les Vagabonds du rail : « La manière dont sont traités...

"Quando io e voi, addormentati o assopiti, cadiamo attraverso lo spazio e torniamo in noi con una sensazione di batticuore, proprio nell'attimo immediatamente prima di fracassarci le ossa al suolo, non facciamo che ricordarci di quel che avvenne ai nostri antenati arboricoli e che si è impresso,...

This carefully edited ebook is a hand-picked collection of world's most admired Westerns in one volume: Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) The Rainbow Trail The Spirit of the Border The Untamed (Max Brand) The Night Horseman The Seventh Man The Virginian (Owen Wister) The Last of the Mohicans (James...

***Fans of Hopeless and Safe Haven will fall in love with the debut novel from London Casey*** __ HURT LIKE HELL __ Tessa Belle barely escaped her father's abusive hands ten years ago, when she was just thirteen. On her own now, in her own apartment, she tells herself it's...

One might expect daring of Jack London, an author who has been gold-miner, sailor, frontiersman, adventurer; whose writing can no more be trite or commonplace than can the narrative of his own life history. But no fictionist ever dreamed of daring to attempt what Jack London has done here--to plunge...

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide...

Disguised as a down-on-his-luck American sailor, Jack London spent six weeks in the summer of 1902 living in London’s East End and studying slum life. Based on his firsthand experience, The People of the Abyss is his exposé of the misery and degrading conditions he found there.

Published in 1915, this novel, based on London's experiences sailing the South Seas, features the adventures of a dog named Jerry. As London wrote in his foreword to the novel, "The adventures of my dog hero in this novel are real adventures in a very real cannibal world."

John Griffith Chaney, dit Jack London, est né en 1876 à San Francisco et connaît une enfance misérable qui le mène, dès quinze ans, à une vie d’errance. Marin, blanchisseur, ouvrier dans une conserverie de saumon, pilleur d’huîtres, chasseur...

Le Cabaret de la dernière chance Jack London, écrivain américain (1876-1916) Ce livre numérique présente «Le Cabaret de la dernière chance», de Jack London, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique...

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) 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 obtain worldwide...

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide...

Smitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's determined striving...

Nouvelle d’anticipation politique de Jack London. Mais ce court texte d’anticipation politique ne pourrait être écrit aujourd’hui sans être taxé de raciste. Pourtant, Jack London est libre comme écrivain de science-fiction d’imaginer comme il l’entend l’avenir européen, comme...