LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jack london

1012 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jack london

  • The Call of the Wild (Reader’s Library Classics)
    Jack London
    There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a ...
    Disponible

    14,90 €

  • The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
    The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, 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 Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in A...
    Disponible

    15,72 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
    A chilling tale of perseverance, survival and loyalty, The White Fang, is a world best-seller that will keep you at the edge of your seats at all times. Written by the famous American author Jack London, The White Fang is an anthropomorphized fable of a wolf-dog with the same name. The Story chronicles the struggles and hardships he faced while trying to survive the wild forest...
    Disponible

    20,98 €

  • Before Adam
    Jack London
    Before Adam is a novel written by Jack London in 1906. It is entirely different from London’s other books. It rotates around the fantasies of a young man, dreams that include racial recollections and the information on his earlier presence as a manlike animal named Big Tooth living in ancient times. It has given a vivid picture view of prehistoric man’s life, transformation of...
    Disponible

    13,42 €

  • The House Of Pride
    Jack London
    The House of Pride is a striking setting in Edmund Spenser’s incredible sonnet The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). The activities of cantos IV and V in Book I happen there, and perusers have related the construction with a few moral stories appropriate to the sonnet. ...
    Disponible

    15,34 €

  • The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
    Jack London
    The Jacket - The Star-Rover by Jack London - The Star Rover is a novel by American essayist Jack London distributed in 1915 (distributed in the United Kingdom as The Jacket). It is an account of reincarnation.A outlining story is told in the principal individual by Darrell Standing, a college teacher serving life detainment in San Quentin State Prison for homicide. Jail authori...
    Disponible

    28,92 €

  • The Little Lady Of The Big House
    Jack London
    The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American essayist Jack London. The story concerns a circle of drama. The hero, Dick Forrest, is a farmer with a graceful streak (his 'oak seed tune' reviews London’s play, 'The Acorn Planters.'). His better half, Paula, is a fiery, athletic, and physically mindful lady (in one scene, she rides a steed into a 'swimming tank,' arisi...
    Disponible

    28,89 €

  • The Mutiny Of The Elsinore
    Jack London
    [The mutiny of the elsinore] life has lost its appreciate for Mr. Pathurst. New York, popularity, ladies, and artistic expressions have all become drawn-out. Looking for energy, he books entry on a freight vessel cruising from Baltimore to Seattle on a course that movements around the deceptive Cape Horn. Pathurst experiences more than he at any point expected in difficult situ...
    Disponible

    31,04 €

  • The Night-Born
    Jack London
    Including stories of unconventional rich men, nostalgic characters, civil rights, dangers conveyed by a transporter pigeon, and ladies with The Night-Born enthralls and propels with its social editorial and odd conditions. With ten works of short fiction, Jack London’s The Night-Born covers subjects of equity, man versus human instinct, authentic occasions, and more with a dist...
    Disponible

    20,20 €

  • The People Of The Abyss
    Jack London
    The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about existence in the East End of London in 1902. He composed this direct record by living in the East End (counting the Whitechapel District) for a very long time, some of the time remaining in workhouses or dozing in the city. The circumstances he encountered and expounded on were equivalent to those persevered by an ex...
    Disponible

    22,38 €

  • The Red One
    Jack London
    ’The Red One’ is a short story by Jack London. The Red One was first printed in the October 1918 issue of The Cosmopolitan, two years after London’s death. The base of the story is about extra-terrestrial origin of red sphere and is worshipped by people as they perform sacrifices. This story whirls around Bassett, a scientist collecting butterflies in the jungle of Guadalcana...
    Disponible

    16,81 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    The Road, first published in 1907, is an autobiography by Jack London. London explains about his experiences and adventures as one of the hoboes. He spent his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. London starts with a story showing what excellent liars hoboes could be. He presents his illustration as an apology to a woman in Salt Lake City that he convin...
    Disponible

    19,14 €

  • The Scarlet Plague
    Jack London
    In 1912, Jack London written a book ’The Scarlet Plague’. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease. Victims face turned scarlet and their lower side become numb. Within 30 minutes, of first seeing symp...
    Disponible

    13,80 €

  • The Sea-Wolf
    Jack London
    Jack London’s novel ’The Sea-Wolf’, originally printed in 1904. It is the realistic story of a gentleman scholar Humphrey van Weyden, who is saved by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. This story tells about a man whose struggles with good and evil result in his demoralisation, disintegration, and death. Book reveals how raw nature can caus...
    Disponible

    28,86 €

  • The Son Of The Wolf
    Jack London
    ’The Son of the Wolf’ was Jack London’s first book, printed in 1900. He had written some short stories about Klondike gold rush and life in the remote North. In these stories he reflects the experiences of, miners and trappers life in Yukon. These stories tell us speculation of life, struggle, patience, and sacrifices. Exceptional qualities of women and on the relations betwee...
    Disponible

    19,13 €

  • A Daughter Of The Snows
    Jack London
    A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London’s most remarkable book, published in 1902. Frona Welse is a strong female character of the book. It narrates the tale of Frona Welse’s life in Yukon, originally she is a Stanford graduate and actual Valkyrie (supernatural woman) who takes to the path subsequent to disturbing her affluent dad’s local area by her direct way and become frie...
    Disponible

    26,71 €

  • Adventure
    Jack London
    American author Jack London’s novel Adventure was first printed in 1911. The story is based on the adventures of a planter in the Solomon Islands, there were expeditions for capturing power, clashes among different groups, races etc. Women liberation and the depiction of courageous human spirit are the other narratives. Joan Lackland, a female activist’s landing in the ranch...
    Disponible

    23,42 €

  • The Strength Of The Strong
    Jack London
    A collection of seven short stories, ’The Strength of the Strong’ is London’s marvellous composition. In these stories London highlighted the problems of the working classes and given a vivid picture of socialistic society. With various symbolic characters for government, industry, labour, religion etc., these stories set in diverse settings. He starts to look back with prehi...
    Disponible

    19,16 €

  • The Valley Of The Moon
    Jack London
    ’The Valley of the Moon’ is an autobiographical portrait of Jack and his wife Chairman leaving working on the Oakland docks to live in Sonoma Valley. The story of Saxon and Billy is a love story that starts off with a boom and then go through difficulties and hard times. Saxon and Billy end up following a wonderful dream. This book is notable for the scenes in which the hero en...
    Disponible

    40,83 €

  • A Son Of The Sun
    Jack London
    A Son of the Sun is a novel written by Jack London, in 1912. It is set in the South Pacific toward the start of the twentieth 100 years and comprises of eight separate stories. The novel depicts the thrilling experiences of Captain David Grief, an adventurous young man, visited England to South seas, enjoying thrill and excitement of life. He faced the challenges of life enth...
    Disponible

    21,28 €

  • Brown Wolf And Other Jack London Stories
    Jack London
    Brown Wolf is a story written by Jack London. While living in radiant California, the dog wolf, is feeling the call of the wild nature, stark, ruined and bone chilling North. Neither the warmth that encompasses him, nor the great everyday environments can cause him to defeat his deepest craving to return to his underlying inception. In the story, Jack London, gives a wide outlo...
    Disponible

    21,30 €

  • White Fang
    Jack London
    The novel ’White Fang’ was written, by the American author Jack London in 1906. In this story, London depicts 1800s American life, with the thrilling experiences of Gold Rush and Yukon Territory. This story is based on the survival of a wild wolf. Wedding Scott a gentle and kind man saves the wild wolf White Fang from the clutches of his cruel master. By the love and compassio...
    Disponible

    23,46 €

  • Burning Daylight
    Jack London
    ’Burning Daylight’ printed in 1910, was one of the most popular and earning book of Jack London, in his lifetime. The story is laid in the Yukon Territory in 1893. 'Burning Daylight' is the nickname given to the main character of the novel. Initially, the idea of the story is taken from the life of Oakland businessman ’Borax’ Smith. In search of good fortunes, he went Alaska, ...
    Disponible

    29,94 €

  • Children Of The Frost
    Jack London
    ’Children of the Frost’s, first printed in 1902, is a good collection of short stories of Jack London. Previously, most of these stories were published in, reputed weekly or monthly magazines. Most of the stories, knitted around North America and the Klondike Gold Rush. Exhibiting London’s exemplary composing style, he imparts to us stories of Native Americans and Europeans st...
    Disponible

    19,08 €

  • Jerry Of The Islands
    Jack London
    Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibl...
    Disponible

    23,49 €

  • John Barleycorn
    Jack London
    First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London’s life was un...
    Disponible

    22,38 €

  • Lost Face
    Jack London
    Lost Face is an assortment of seven brief tales by Jack London. It takes its named from the primary brief tale in the book, about an European swashbuckler in the Yukon who outmaneuvers his Indian capturers’ arrangements to torment him. This assortment incorporates London’s most popular brief tale, To Build a Fire. It recounts the tale of another explorer in the Klondike who ove...
    Disponible

    18,02 €

  • Love Of Life
    Jack London
    Love of life is one of the agent works of American pragmatist author Jack London, who utilizations itemized ...
    Disponible

    19,13 €

  • Martin Eden
    Jack London
    The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most indispensable and unique person Jack London at any point made. Set in San Francisco, this is the narrative of Martin Eden, a devastated sailor who seeks after, fanatically and forcefully, dreams of training and abstract notoriety. London, disappointed with the awards of his own prosperity, planned Martin Eden as an assault on ind...
    Disponible

    35,42 €

  • Michael, Brother Of Jerry
    Jack London
    'Michael, brother of jerry' is a 1917 novel via jack london. It’s miles the sequel to his novel 'jerry of the islands', which became also launched in 1917. The books tell the tale of the irish terriers jerry and his brother michael, who both are living on the solomon islands. This fascinating tale will attraction to dog fanatics and lovers of dog literature, and it isn’t always...
    Disponible

    27,79 €