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Colmillo Blanco es el título de una novela del escritor estadounidense Jack London, así como el nombre de su protagonista. Inicialmente aparecida por entregas en la revista Outing, fue publicada en 1906.

El argumento trata de un perro llamado Buck cuyos instintos primitivos vuelven tras una serie de sucesos que le ocurren cuando lo ponen a tirar de un trineo en el Yukón durante la fiebre del oro que tuvo lugar en el siglo XX en el Klondike durante la cual los perros de tiro se compraban a precios elevados.

La gente del abismo (The People of the Abyss en el original - 1903) es un libro de Jack London sobre la vida en el East End de Londres en 1902. Él escribió de primera mano las experiencias de vivir en el East End (incluyendo el distrito de Whitechapel) por varios meses, a veces permaneciendo...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected...

Von den Mythen der Ureinwohner Hawaiis bis zur ersten Beschreibung des Wellenreitens durch den Seefahrer Captain Cook. Von den Briefen des Draufgängers Mark Twain, in denen er seine ersten Surfversuche beschreibt, bis zu der Hymne, die Jack London auf diesen "königlichen Sport" anstimmt....

Return to New York Times bestselling author Julia London's popular Cabot Sisters series! If you love the novels of Stephanie Laurens and Sarah MacLean you won't want to miss this compulsively readable tale brimming with lush atmosphere and sizzling passion. A plan born of desperation…  Once...

Charly St. James knows drama. Her home life--wretched. Her trip from Chicago to New York--disastrous. But she's about to put all that behind her. . . . Charly's been waiting forever to put her acting skills to work, and now she's been cast on the reality show The Extreme Dream Team. In each...

The book The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which...

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather,...

The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London's most famous novels. It is set in Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California when Buck...

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute.

Bad boy PR guru Lance Fulton is all about helping the gorgeous, quirky risk analyst Bailey Reuben. She’s in desperate need of some fun, and pretending to be her new boyfriend is the perfect way to make her see how sexy she is, help her out of a bind, and show her jerk of an ex what he’s missing. Bailey...

The death of their mother brings twin sisters Avery and Kate to acoastal beach town struggling to start a new life. Through hardship,one finds true love; the other fights to survive and to figure out whoshe really is. Two men enter their lives, one with good intentions andthe other bad. When worlds...

The new Sweet Escape series by co-authors Mia London & Susan Sheehey is the perfect beach read for the summer! Super steamy paradise is only a click away. She believes in success. He believes in a carefree lifestyle. Driven and work-obsessed, Samantha Callahan's specialty is conquering...