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La vida tranquil·la i relaxada del Buck, un gos domestic que ha nascut en una casa benestant, canvia radicalment d'un dia per l'altre quan uns buscadors d'or el segresten a California i se l'emporten a les terres inhospites de l'Artic. Comencen aixi una colla de dramatiques aventures i, poc a poc, el Buck sentira neixer en ell l'instint que el crida cap al bosc, cap als llops, cap als seus germans salvatges.

El preso Darrel Starding está encerrado en la cárcel de San Quintín sometido a unas sesiones diarias de camisa de fuerza que le inflinge su guardián, Atherton. Pero su voluntad le ayuda a resistir y a imponerse al destino que le espera para lo que le queda de vida. Inmovilizado por la camisa de fuerza, casi al borde la muerte, aprende a viajar en el tiempo con su mente, lo que le per...

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.

Publicada en 1903, esta novela de Jack London tiene como protagonista a un perro llamado Buck, que es vendido y enviado a los yacimientos de oro de Alaska. En un país salvaje y hostil, se ve obligado

Antes De Adán es una novela escrita por Jack London en 1907.

En la Patrulla Pesquera, relatos publicados en 1905 en la revista The Youths Companion, encontramos la descripción de unos personajes singulares que entendían que en aquella bahía y en aquella época todo era valido, que la audacia y el valor eran los que determinaban las jerarquias, y que las mismas estratagemas, el todo vale, la trampa, el engaño, usan los protagonistas, veladores del orden, para poder detener a los infractores de una ley que no castiga tanto el robo como una pesca indiscriminada y, por lo tanto, salvaje.

La historia arranca a partir de un portento de huracán que hace naufragar al Petite Jeanne, el carguero en el que viajan. Otoo y el protagonista, el anglosajón que cuenta la historia, se salvan asiéndose de un madero. A partir de ese momento, de vida y muerte, la relacion de ambos se afianza. Llegan a intercambiar nombres. El pagano sera Charley y el blanco Otoo, en una ceremonia muy importante en esas regiones, "que establece entre dos hombres vinculos mas estrechos que los de la sangre". A lo largo de diecisiete años recorren juntos distintos puertos y efectuan distintos trabajos, incluido el comercio de perlas en Tuamotu. Charley agradece a su amigo esa compañia: "Yo soy obra suya. De no haber existido el, hoy seria yo un sobrecargo, un reclutador de negros y un simple recuerdo". "El pagano" es un tributo a esa camaraderia ("me atreveria a decir que nunca hubo algo parecido entre un hombre blanco y uno moreno") que ofrece, al final, mediante el ultimo de los sacrificios y con un tiburon de por medio, un desenlace que para mi cuenta como uno de los mas logrados en la obra de London.

A finales del siglo XIX se descubrió oro en la recóndita cuenca del Klodinke, en Alaska. La `fiebre del oro' llevó a miles de aventureros a aquellas remotas tierras. Entre ellos iba el joven Jack London, que al cabo de unos meses regresaría a casa enfermo y con las manos vacías. Las vivencias allí acumuladas le servirían para escribir esta serie de narraciones en las cuales se condensa el London más depurado

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack Londons socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.

Jerry is a dog whose experiences reflect the cruelty and racism of colonial Melanesia.

This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate,""Just Meat,""A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago."

Written during a time of tragedy, this novel of sea life fails in either its story or doctrinaire intentions.

A tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism.

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness."

This story of brutality toward animals inspired a movement known as the Jack London Clubs, which were devoted to the cause of animal welfare and humane treatment.

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian

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 Son of Keesh- The Death of Ligoun- Li Wan, the Fair

Contents:The Son of the WolfThe God of his Fathers & Other StoriesA Daughter of the SnowsThe Call of the WildThe Sea WolfThe Faith of Men & Other StoriesThe GameTales of the Fish PatrolMoon-Face & Other StoriesWhite FangBefore AdamLove of Life & Other StoriesThe RoadThe Iron HeelMartin EdenBurning DaylightLost FaceAdventureThe Abysmal BruteSouth Sea TalesWhen God Laughs & Other StoriesThe Scarlet PlagueThe House of PrideA Son of the SunThe Valley of the MoonThe Night-BornThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreThe Strength of the StrongThe Star RoverThe Little Lady of the Big HouseThe Turtles of TasmanJerry of the IslandsMichael, Brother of JerryHearts of ThreeThe Red OneOn the Makaloa MatChildren of the FrostDutch Courage and Other Stories

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieves apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joes, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of Londons boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.