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Amor a la vida Batard Cara de luna El burlado El diente de ballena El llamado de la selva El pagano El silencio blanco Encender una hoguera La ley de la vida La liga de los ancianos Odisea en el norte Por el hombre que esta en la pista Un buen bistec Colmillo Blanco PRIMERA PARTE LO SALVAJE El aullido del hambre SEGUNDA PARTE NACIDO EN LO SALVAJE La ley de la carne TERCERA PARTE LOS DIOSES DE LO SALVAJE El pacto El hambre CUARTA PARTE LOS DIOSES SUPERIORES El maestro del amor QUINTA PARTE DOMESTICADO El lobo durmiente GLOSARIO La llamada de la selvaJack London, probablemente nacido como John Griffith Chaney (1876-22 - 1916),1 2 3 fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de Colmillo Blanco, The Call of the Wild (traducida en español como La llamada de lo salvaje y La llamada de la selva4 ), y otros cincuenta libros.

A prize fighter faces the corruption of civilization and finds redemption in the wilds of California

Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans."

The title story is a short story by Jack London, on the subject of extreme antipathy. The unnamed protagonist of the story has an irrational hatred of John Claverhouse, the moon-face man. He hates really everything about him: his face, his laugh, his entire life, and when he finds out that Claverhouse engages in illegal fishing with dynamite, he works out a scheme to kill him while making it look like an accident...The Leopard Mans Story is a short mystery story about the ingenious murder of "King" Wallace, a fearless lion-tamer as told by the "Leopard Man", a saddened leopard trainer who bears visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposes his daring profession.Other stories included are: Local Color, Amateur Night, The Minions of Midas, The Shadow and the Flash, All Gold Canyon, and Planchette.

Forse il romanzo piu famoso dello scrittore statunitense, e uno dei grandi classici della letteratura per ragazzi. Pubblicato inizialmente a puntate sulla rivista Saturday Evening Post nellestate del 1903, la storia e ambientata nel grande nord americano, durante la corsa alloro che, nella realta, aveva visto lo stesso London come protagonista. In queste pagine e invece protagonista un cane, che viene rapito dal suo padrone e venduto ad alcuni cercatori doro che si spostano in cerca di fortune nel Klondike. Costretto a trainare pesanti slitte, picchiato e sfruttato dai suoi spietati padroni, verra salvato da John Tornton, grazie al quale imparera ad amare luomo anche se al tempo stesso inizia ad avvertire il richiamo sempre piu forte della foresta. Alla fine, dopo incredibili vicissitudini, diverra il capobranco di un gruppo di lupi. Una storia formativa nella quale risalta il contrasto tra istinto naturale e disciplina, tra amore per le regole e slancio verso la liberta assoluta, le azioni da compiere e quelle da evitare. Allinterno - come in tutti i volumi Fermento - gli "Indicatori" per consentire al lettore un agevole viaggio dentro il libro.

Este ebook presenta "Colmillo Blanco" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.Colmillo Blanco es una novela de Jack London, así como el nombre de su protagonista. Inicialmente aparecida por entregas en la revista Outing, fue publicada en 1906. La historia transcurre en el Territorio del Yukon, Canada, durante la Fiebre del oro de Klondike a fines del siglo XIX, narrando el camino hacia la domesticacion de un perro lobo salvaje. La mayor parte de la novela esta escrita desde el punto de vista del personaje canino, permitiendole a London explorar la forma en que los animales ven su mundo y como estos ven a los humanos. Colmillo Blanco examina el violento mundo de los animales salvajes y el igualmente violento mundo de los humanos.Jack Londonm (John Griffith su verdadero nombre) (1876-1916) fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de Colmillo Blanco, La llamada de la selva), y otros cincuenta libros. Ademas de un prolifico escritor y lector empedernido, fue un hombre de accion y trabajo en los oficios mas dispares: se alisto en el ejercito, fue buscador de oro en Alaska, pescador furtivo de ostras, surco el Pacifico en un barco que se dedicaba a la caza de focas, vagabundeo por el pais, etc...En el plano de las ideas, comulgo con el socialismo y apoyo el derecho de sufragio de las mujeres.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadnessa laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack Londons first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy fathers community by her forthright manner and befriending the towns prostitute.

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.

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.

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack Londons masterpiece. Based on Londons experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.

Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit...First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack Londons masterpiece. Based on Londons experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in "The Call of the Wild". H. L. Mencken.Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction. James Dickey

Francis Morgan, heir to a Wall Street expert, tired of New York decides to leave for Central America in search of a treasure that is believed to have belonged to an ancestor. During his trip he will meet a distant relative, be imprisoned on a murder charge, cross the Cordilleras, meet a mystic queen and fall in love with a beautiful stranger. Meanwhile, back at home a cunning enemy is plotting behind his back ...

Joe Fleming makes his living as a sail maker and taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. For love of Genevieve he promises to abandon the world of matches, but not before one last fight, the d

Buck is a mongrel between a Saint Bernard and a Collie, who is kidnapped and sold as a sled dog in Alaska, where, with spirit of adaptation will be able to impose itself as lead dog, until the final

Joe Bronson, after being scolded by his father for failing an exam, decides to join the crew of the Dazzler, the captain and Frisco Kid, a boy of about Joes age. Soon will realize he made a terrible mistake, embroiled in the illegal activities of the captain.

David Grief is a rich English adventurer of forty years. His wealth is spread between several islands in the South Pacific that require him to travel frequently and live numerous adventures.

The captain of a cargo ship sailing from Seattle to Cape Horn dies suddenly. Immediately will start a battle for succession which will split the crew into two factions. Hostility and storms will not thwart the young captains daughter and a wealthy passenger to fall in love.

Il vagabondo delle stelle e un romanzo scritto da Jack London nel 1915. Narra la storia di un professore universitario, Darrell Standing, detenuto nel carcere di San Quentin per lomicidio del professor Haskel. Il protagonista, piu tardi condannato a morte per aggressione e non per lomicidio del professore, scrive negli ultimi tre giorni della sua vita le sue memorie. Piu che memorie sono racconti di "viaggi" che fa durante il periodo di permanenza in carcere, soprattutto quando rinchiuso in cella di isolamento.Standing e sempre stato un detenuto ritenuto "incorreggibile", ossia "un essere temuto da tutti", e fortemente odiato da Atherton, direttore del carcere. Dopo alcune vicende, che coinvolgono un altro detenuto, Cecil Winwood, e una presunta dinamite nascosta allinterno del carcere, Standing viene rinchiuso in cella di isolamento. Qui subisce anni di torture e di camicia di forza, come punizione da parte del direttore, per non voler rivelare dove si trova la dinamite, della cui esistenza egli non e a conoscenza e che in realta non e mai entrata allinterno del carcere.Alla fine del romanzo Darrell Standing, prima di venire impiccato per laggressione del secondino Thurston, descrive lassurdita della pena di morte, il disagio sperimentato dai suoi esecutori e la sua assoluta serenita, alimentata dalla curiosita di vivere la sua prossima vita.

Humphrey van Weyden, a naive intellectual is saved by Wolf Larsen, strong and mysterious captain of a seal-hunting schooner. Forced to become a cabin boy on the "Ghost", Humphrey will live adventures, mutinies, shipwrecks and dangers before finding salvation.