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A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans."" "Before Adam" is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world. This commemorative edition features a map of the world of Big-Tooth, an epilogue by Loren Eiseley, striking illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, contemporary reviews, and a listing of peoples and characters.

Ésta es una pequeña novela de formación de la personalidad muy original entre las obras de este autor. Frente a tantos héroes de London que ven cerrado el camino de integrarse en la sociedad, aquí se propone una solución armónica, en la que se combina el deseo de independencia con la nostalgia de un hogar y un orden interior.'

Ambientada en la vida agreste y salvaje de una frontera que trasciende su mero carácter físico para convertirse en encarnación del conflicto entre la naturaleza y un ser humano alienado de ella, COLMILLO BLANCO es una de las obras mas celebres de JACK LONDON (1872-1916). Reverso casi simetrico de La llamada de la naturaleza (BT 8049), en la historia del perro salvaje que, significativamente, se degrada en su contacto con el hombre, hallamos, en efecto, matizadas por la belleza de los grandes escenarios naturales y una remota esperanza de redencion, las inquietudes que rigen toda la obra del autor estadounidense: el choque entre civilizacion y naturaleza, la perpetua pugna entre el bien y el mal, la supervivencia del mas fuerte, el determinismo genetico, la seleccion natural.

'We need London's mythical wolf almost as much as we need the wildernesses of the world, for without such ghost-animals from the depths of the human subconscious we are alone with ourselves' - from the introduction. This volume of the best of Jack London's famed stories of the North includes The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, along with 'Bâtard', 'Love of Life', and White Fang, the story of a wild dog's acclimation to the world of men, generally considered the companion piece to The Call of the Wild. In his introduction, James Dickey probes London's strong personal and literary identification with the wolf-dog symbol and totem. Andrew Sinclair, London's official biographer and the volume's editor, provides a brief account of London's life as sailor, desperado, socialist, adventurer and acclaimed author.

Situada a San Francisco, aquesta és la història de Martin Eden, un empobrit mariner que persegueix d'una manera obsessiva i agressiva, somnis d'educació i fama literària. Martin Eden és el personatge més vital i original que Jack London va crear mai.

THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. Drawing on his wolf heritage, Buck must fight for survival in an alien environment.

Se presentan en este libro tres narraciones poco conocidas de London: la primera es un viaje al corazón mismo del misterio; la segunda otro viaje a las minas de oro de Alaska y la tercera es una bella reflexion sobre la vida desde el punto de vista oriental.

 La llamada de lo salvaje desarrolla la acción en  la zona ártica próxima al río Yukón, donde se encontraron los yacimientos que dieron lugar a la fiebre del oro . Buck, el perro vigoroso q