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Jack London's masterpiece follows the adventures of a dog named Buck, who was stolen from a comfortable life in California and sold to pay the gambling debts of a gardener's helper. The story tracks him through a series of masters, and his subsequent life as a sled dog during the days of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska.

John Griffith London nació en San Francisco el 12 de enero de 1876. Hijo de un astrólogo ambulante, al que no conoció. Su madre era espiritista; se casó con John London unos meses después del nacimiento del niño, de quien el escritor tomó el apellido. Realizó estudios secundarios mientras trabajaba. London fue una gran autodidacta. Se formó leyendo incansablemente libros en la biblioteca pública de la ciudad. Realizó multitud de oficios que le resultaron muy útiles para sus novelas.

Outstanding American writer Jack London (1876-1916) includes one of the most interesting, popular, and piercing works - the story "Michael, Brother of Jerry".

This post-apocalyptic fiction novel takes place in 2072, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.

Prikljuchencheskij roman «Serdca trjoh» napisan special'no dlja kino. Ostryj, dinamichnyj sjuzhet, mistika, neverojatnye prikljuchenija, sdelali ego odnim iz luchshih vesternov v mirovoj literature. Dzhek London ochen' vysoko cenil etot roman, schitaja ego odnim iz luchshih svoih proizvedenij.

The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man.

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him. White Fang is a companion novel and thematic mirror to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild.

"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes - which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: "The Whale Tooth", "To Build a Fire", "The House of Pride", and "The House of Mapuhi".

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men - and dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog, which almost kills him, but he survives to find a new and fulfilling way of life. The Call of the Wild is not only a classic 'ripping yarn', but also an enduring masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature.

Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The 2 men - the one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class, the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined - inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London dramatizes in this story the violent encounter between safe, genteel comfort and a brutal set of circumstances.

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs – big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life – how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow... and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

The classic short story "To Build a Fire", by American author Jack London, is brought to life in ways he probably never imagined when it was first published in 1908. The subtle blending of narration and music create a vivid image of the "Man" and his "Wolf Dog" as they set out on foot along the Yukon in temperatures colder than negative 50 degrees F. With plans to meet his friends at a logging camp by 6:00pm, the Man finds himself pitted in a life-or-death struggle with nature.

Izdanie vkljuchaet velikolepnyj sbornik rasskazov vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona o prikljuchenijah hudozhnika Kristofera Bell'ju vo vremja Klondajkskoj "zolotoj lihoradki":Vkus mjasa Mjaso Na Babij ruchej Chelovek na drugom beregu Sostjazanie na pervenstvo.

Los trineos dejaban oír su eterna queja, a la que se mezclaba el chirrear de los arneses y el tintineo de las campanillas de los perros que iban a la cabeza. Pero los hombres y los animales, rendidos de fatiga, guardaban silencio. Una capa de nieve reciente dificultaba la marcha sobre la pista. Estaban ya muy lejos del punto de partida. Los perros arrastrando una carga excesiva de ancas de alce congelada, dura como el pedernal, se apalancaban con todas sus fuerzas en la blanda superficie de la nieve con una terquedad casi humana

What was that amazing otherworldly sound? Bassett, a specimen hunting naturalist, is overwhelmed and obsessed with finding its source. Into the jungle of Guadalcanal he plunges, undeterred by fierce cannibals, headhunters, deadly tropical diseases, and a romantic savage. Relentlessly onward he fights his way, until many weeks later, sick and dying, he finally comes face to face with, and learns the incredible secret of, The Red One.

Izdanie vydajushhegosja amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916) vkljuchaet v sebja roman Malen'kaja hozjajka bol'shogo doma, odno iz samyh liricheskih proizvedenij pisatelja, v osnove sjuzheta kotorogo lezhit «ljubovnyj treugol'nik». Roman javljaetsja odnim iz samyh chitaemyh i ljubimyh proizvedenij Dzheka Londona.

En esta obra, publicada en 1909, el autor mostro el retrato de un rudo marinero que quiere progresar, pero al tratar de dedicarse a escritor se encuentra con el fracaso continuo y el rechazo permanente, incluso de la mujer que ama. Pero al cambiar su suerte, y ser aceptadas sus obras, todos quieren congraciarse con el pero Martin Eden se ha cansado del mundo.

Jack London's South Sea Tales is a collection of eight short stories set in the South Pacific. The stories include: "The House of Mapuhi", "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki", "Yah! Yah! Yah!", "The Heathen", "The Terrible Solomons", "The Inevitable White Man", and "The Seed of McCoy".

The Sea Wolf is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sailing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute...and he is the captain.