Jack London: 1138 books

Jack London, the novelist, the writer of short stories, merits respect, for he is a powerful artist in the field where he found fame. He is best known by his stories of life in the frozen and savage North. His interpretations are characterized by brutal vigor. They are rich in the element of man and nature.

Dutch Courage is a collection of short stories by Jack London that was originally published in 1922, about six years after his death. It gathers together ten stories that had not been included in any of his previous short story collections. These stories are all straightforward examples of entertaining adventure fiction.

"Nordlandgeschichten" ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller und Journalisten Jack London. Inhaltsverzeichnis: - Negore, der Feigling - Der König und sein Schamane - Das Wort der Männer - Der Gott seiner Väter - Das Vorrecht des Priesters - Die Weisheit...

Jack London ne cessera de dénoncer la brutalité des prisons. Et pour cause : il a lui-même été enfermé pour vagabondage, au pénitencier du comté d'Erié, à Buffalo, dans l'État de New York. Il écrira dans son roman autobiographique Les Vagabonds du rail : « La manière dont...

Os minilivros desta coleção dão ao leitor a oportunidade de a qualquer momento e em qualquer parte distrair-se com poucos minutos de boa literatura. Nessa coleção você conhecerá ou relembrará um pedacinho da arte de Eça de Queirós, Jack London, Voltaire, Lima Barreto, Machado de Assis, Juan Valera, Guillaume Apollinaire, Olavo Bilac... Experimente.

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 celebrity...

Auf einer kleinen Südseeinsel haben sich mehrere Handelsschiffe eingefunden, um mit den eingeborenen Perlenfischern ins Geschäft zu kommen. Einer der Perlenfischer bietet eine besonders große und schöne Perle an. Er verlangt für die Perle den Gegenwert eines kleinen Hauses. Anfangs findet er...

Due classici di Jack London: - La prerogativa del prete - Le mille dozzina di uova

Before anyone knew there was such a thing, Jack London gave us the natural: Young Pat Glendon has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He loves nature, is afraid of cities, and is shy of women. And he is a perfect fighter. Summoned from the city to consider such a prospect, cynical Sam Stubener,...

L’ultimo romanzo di Jack London: originale, superlativo, “fantastico”

Il richiamo della foresta è un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1903. La storia racconta le vicende del cane Buck, un incrocio tra un sanbernardo e un pastore scozzese, che vive insieme al suo padrone, il giudice Miller nella Santa Clara Valley (California). Un giorno Manuel, il giardiniere, rapisce...

In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew. And in the end he was known by no other name than Smoke Bellew. And this history of the evolution of his name is the history...

A short novel by Jack London (Call of the Wild, and White Fang), about Joe Fleming, a boxer whose demise seems destined. First published in 1905.

The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds...