Jack London: 1138 books

Relato incluido en el libro "La invasión y otros terrorismos" El conjunto de relatos de "La invasión y otros terrorismos" reúne una muestra relevante de la literatura que ha hecho de Jack London uno de los mejores narradores norteamericanos del siglo XX. Es difícil no asombrarse con el espléndido...

Cuento incluido en el libro La invasión y otros terrorismos El conjunto de relatos de La invasión y otros terrorismos reúne una muestra relevante de la literatura que ha hecho de Jack London uno de los mejores narradores norteamericanos del siglo XX. Es difícil no asombrarse con el espléndido...

Wie kaum ein anderer hat Jack London den Kampf des Menschen ums Überleben zum Thema vieler seiner Geschichten gemacht. In den hier versammelten Erzählungen ist dieser Überlebenskampf ein Kampf gegen die Unerbittlichkeit der Natur. Ihre archaische Grausamkeit hat London schonungslos beschrieben,...

Durant l’été 1902, Jack London descend au cœur des ténèbres de l’empire le plus puissant de la planète pour y vivre le quotidien des pauvres de l’East End de Londres. Le récit qu’il en rapporte est effrayant. Faim, alcoolisme, violence, maladie et survie sont le quotidien de ces prolétaires...

Jack London – (Jan 12, 1876 – Nov 22, 1916) American writer and journalist. Born and grown up in California, he tried his luck in Alaska in the time of the Gold Rush, but unsuccessfully. During his writer's career he's written such novels as "Martin Eden", "The White Fang",...

Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahlreichen Worterklärungen || In neun lose miteinander verbundenen, spannenden Erzählungen zeichnet Jack London ein grandioses Panorama des hohen Nordwestens Amerikas, zur...

MOON-FACE (Excerpt) John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like...

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 likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might...

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian. DUTCH COURAGE (excerpt) "Just our luck!" Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and sullenly threw the towel upon the rocks. His attitude was one of deep dejection. The light seemed...

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian. DUTCH COURAGE (excerpt) "Just our luck!" Gus Lafee finished wiping his hands and sullenly threw the towel upon the rocks. His attitude was one of deep dejection. The light...

Avant Adam (Edition Intégrale - Version Entièrement Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographie de Jack London Descriptif : Le monde préhistorique aura inspiré au tournant du siècle passé, deux romans que tous ceux qui les ont lus s'accordent à qualifier d'inoubliables : La Guerre du...

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 all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still to overlap in the Land of...

Contains a number of lesser-known South Pacific tales. A SON OF THE SUN (excerpt) The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white...

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 the Unveracious - The Master of Mystery - The Sunlanders - The Sickness of Lone Chief - Keesh, the...