De toutes les aventures que je vais vous raconter et que je ne sais par quel bout prendre, la faute en revient indéniablement à mon ami Charley Furuseth. Et voici comment.Il possédait un cottage, de l’autre côté de la baie de San Francisco, à l’ombre du mont Tamalpais. Mais, au lieu de l’occuper durant les mois d’été, il préférait résider dans l’atmosphère étouffante et poussiéreuse de la ville, et y suer depuis le matin jusqu’au soir.L’hiver, au contraire, il s’y installait pour lire en paix Nietzsche et Schopenhauer.J’avais pris l’habitude d’aller l’y rejoindre, le samedi après-midi, pour demeurer en sa compagnie jusqu’au lundi.Et voilà pourquoi un certain lundi matin de janvier, je me trouvai à bord du ferry-boat Martinez, un excellent navire, tout neuf, qui effectuait, pour la quatrième ou cinquième fois, la navette entre San Francisco et Sausalito.  Un épais brouillard couvrait toute la baie ; et en ma qualité de terrien, je n’étais pas très rassuré.

Jack London est né en 1876 à San Francisco. Il passe son enfance dans le ranch de son beau père : une enfance dure, presque misérable. Poussé par son tempérament aventureux, il quitte très jeune la maison pour s'embarquer comme mousse; il a quinze ans à peine. Par la suite, il exerce toutes sortes de métiers, de pêcheur d'huitres à garde côte. De son voyage en Alaska parmi les chercheurs d'or, Jack London rapporte "L'Appel de la forêt", l'un de ses chefs-d'œuvre.RésuméBuck est au début un chien normal, avec une petite vie tranquille dans la ville de Santa Clara, avec son maitre, le juge Miller et sa petite famille. Jusqu'au jour où il se fait kidnapper par le jardinier du juge Miller pour son propre compte. Il commence alors une nouvelle vie et apprend la violence, le goût du sang et la loi du plus fort. Il devient chien de traineau et change de maitres, traverse plus de trois milles lieues. Chacun de ses maitres avaient des ambitions différentes et un travail différent. Mais de plus en plus, il ressent l'appel de la forêt, l'appel d'un husky-loup avec qui, il devient vite ami.

La Peste Écarlate est ce qu’on pourrait appeler un roman post-historique. L’auteur imagine qu’un immense fléau, une maladie mystérieuse, contre laquelle la science est demeurée impuissante, a dépeuplé le monde et presque complètement anéanti l’humanité. Le célèbre romancier californien nous fait un saisissant et tragique tableau de cette vaste agonie humaine et de la fantastique destruction de San Francisco, qui s’écroule dans des tourbillons de flammes. Quant aux rares survivants qui ont échappé, que deviendront-ils, abandonnés à eux-mêmes, sur la terre désolée ? Par une régression successive, ils retourneront logiquement à l’état préhistorique des premiers hommes du monde, et l’humanité devra reprendre lentement, ensuite, à travers des milliers de siècles et de générations, sa marche vers la civilisation disparue. On retrouvera dans cette œuvre curieuse toutes les qualités d’évocation puissante, coutumières à Jack London.Construire un Feu est un conte du Klondike et du Pays de l’Or, drame angoissant et terrible, qui a pour seuls acteurs un homme et un chien. Par la simplicité des moyens employés, par la sobriété du style, dégagé de tout vain ornement, c’est une œuvre qui mérite l’épithète de classique, au sens le plus large du mot. Elle l’est déjà en Amérique, où elle figure parmi les morceaux choisis de la littérature nationale, destinés aux écoles. Nul doute qu’elle ne le devienne de même en France.

"I figli del gelo" raccoglie dieci racconti scritti da London tra il 1901 e il 1902. È un periodo di fondamentale importanza nella vita e nella carriera dell'autore: dopo le prime due raccolte in cui richiamava gli anni della Corsa all'Oro, e la pubblicazione di due romanzi di scarso successo, London abbandona per la prima volta i temi a lui cari raccontando storie di profonda umanità e creando personaggi memorabili. Il tutto, mentre si dedicava alla stesura del suo primo grande successo, "Il richiamo della foresta".

"L'Appel de la forêt" (ou "L'Appel sauvage") est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London publié aux États-Unis en 1903.Oeuvre maîtresse de Jack London, "L'Appel de la forêt" a tout pour passionner les jeunes lecteurs. Il y a l'aventure dans le Grand Nord, en Alaska, parmi les aventuriers et les chercheurs d'or, à la découverte de l'univers mythique des pionniers américains. Et il y a évidemment l'étonnante aventure de Buck, attachant et courageux, au destin hors du commun.Loin d'avoir une "vie de chien", Buck coule une existence heureuse dans la famille du juge Miller. Grâce à son autorité naturelle, sa beauté, son intelligence et sa force, il règne en monarque absolu sur tous les autres animaux du domaine.Mais tout bascule un jour où, victime de la traîtrise d'un homme, il se retrouve vendu à un conducteur de traîneau dans le Grand Nord américain. Finie la vie d'aristocrate blasé, Buck va devoir affronter son destin dans un univers glacial et sans pitié, où chaque faute, chaque erreur est sévèrement sanctionnée. Saura-t-il survivre dans ce monde cruel où règne la loi du plus fort ? Qu'adviendra-t-il de cet admirable chien le jour où il découvrira, d'abord avec amertume, puis avec un plaisir trouble et instinctif, le goût du sang ?

"Croc-Blanc" est l'un des romans les plus connus de Jack London. Publié en 1906, son titre original est "White Fang" et il atteint très rapidement une notoriété égale, voire supérieure à "L'Appel de la Forêt".Le roman a été plusieurs fois adapté au cinéma : en 1973, 1965, 1975 et 1991.Dans le Grand Nord sauvage et glacé, un jeune loup apprend à lutter pour la vie. Les premiers hommes qu'il rencontre, des Indiens, le baptisent Croc-Blanc. Auprès d'eux, il connaît la chaleur du feu de camp, mais aussi le goût du sang. Racheté par un Blanc cupide, il est dressé pour le combat et découvre la haine. Un homme pourtant le sauve de cet enfer. Croc-Blanc lui vouera un amour exclusif.

"Le Talon de fer" est le grand roman « politique » de Jack London publié aux États-Unis en 1908. En faite, Trotski considérait "Le Talon de fer" comme le seul roman politique réussi de la littérature.Un roman d’anticipation politique, pour être précis : qui prévoyait une guerre mondiale mettant aux prises l’Allemagne et les États-Unis, une révolution d’Octobre (mais à Chicago)… et l’avènement d’une dictature d’un genre nouveau aux États-Unis (disons fasciste)… pour les trois siècles à venir!"Le Talon de fer" est considéré comme la première dystopie moderne. 

"Quando io e voi, addormentati o assopiti, cadiamo attraverso lo spazio e torniamo in noi con una sensazione di batticuore, proprio nell'attimo immediatamente prima di fracassarci le ossa al suolo, non facciamo che ricordarci di quel che avvenne ai nostri antenati arboricoli e che si è impresso, per le successive modificazioni cerebrali, nell'eredità della specie."Richiamandosi alla teoria dell'evoluzione, Jack London fa rivivere nei sogni di un fanciullo di oggi i ricordi dell'infanzia dell'Homo Sapiens, tramandatigli da un antenato del Medio Pleistocene grazie alla memoria che si trasmette nella specie di generazione in generazione. Attraverso una sorta di transfert onirico il protagonista si rivede bambino in una terra sconosciuta, abitata da popoli cavernicoli. Inizia, così, per lui un viaggio misterioso e affascinante, a tratti crudele e spietato, dove incontrerà il Popolo degli Alberi e al fianco del suo inseparabile amico, Flosciorecchio, dovrà coraggiosamente difendersi dalle insidie del truce e violento Occhiorosso. Un vagabondaggio in terre sconosciute e inospitali, la scoperta dell’amore e della lotta per la sopravvivenza, la fuga e lo sterminio ad opera del più evoluto Popolo del Fuoco, l’approdo finalmente in una terra sicura. Fantasia preistorica limpida e inquietante, 'Prima di Adamo' presenta tutte le tematiche più care a London. Una sorta di romanzo distopico proiettato nel passato, ma con un occhio rivolto alle distorsioni e alle ingiustizie del presente. Di ogni presente.Per fruire al meglio di questo Audio-eBook da leggere e ascoltare in sincronia leggi la pagina d'aiuto a questo link: https://help.streetlib.com/hc/it/articles/211787685-Come-leggere-gli-audio-ebook

Con Il vagabondo delle stelle, l'autore esce dal solco di una tradizione che lo vorrebbe esclusivamente ancorato allo stile "avventuroso". In queste pagine London trasferisce la stessa disordinata energia che contraddistingue la sua vita e nello stesso tempo un impegno filosofico e sociale. La sua sincerità nell'esporre la propria ideologia è indubbia, così come la forza autentica che si sprigiona dalle pagine migliori.

La Strada è una raccolta di nove articoli apparsi su Cosmopolitan tra il 1906 e il 1907, London si concentra su una figura scomoda per l'America, quella dell'hobo, il barbone, che diventerà importante anche nella poetica di scrittori come John Steinbeck e George Orwell, anticipando di mezzo secolo i grandi vagabondaggi di Jack Kerouac.Jack London, all'anagrafe John Griffith Chaney London (San Francisco, 12 gennaio 1876 – Glen Ellen, 22 novembre 1916), è stato uno scrittore, giornalista e drammaturgo statunitense, noto per romanzi come Il richiamo della foresta, Martin Eden, Zanna Bianca, Il tallone di ferro, Il vagabondo delle stelle, Il lupo dei mari e La peste scarlatta. La sua vita fu caratterizzata da attività e interessi personali diversi, coerenti con uno stile di vita vagabondo: fece lo strillone di giornali, il pescatore clandestino di ostriche, il lavandaio, il cacciatore di foche, il corrispondente di guerra (guerra russo-giapponese), l'agente di assicurazioni, il pugile, il coltivatore e il cercatore d'oro, prima di realizzarsi, dopo innumerevoli tentativi, come scrittore di successo.

Un cacciatore che sostiene di aver incontrato un mammuth e che riesce a sottomettere un'intera tribù indiana grazie a una miscela misteriosa, una coppia di cercatori d'oro alla ricerca di un improbabile El Dorado, un intraprendente venditore disposto ad arrivare in Alaska con mille dozzine di uova, un cane infernale e una squaw dalla volontà di ferro. Questi sono solo alcuni dei protagonisti degli otto racconti scritti da Jack London tra il 1903 e il 1904, durante gli ultimi fuochi della Corsa all'Oro.

Un uomo nutre un odio innaturale contro un vicino; una vendetta maturata per anni trova sfogo nel modo più inaspettato. E ancora, una rivalità di una vita si traduce in un esperimento al di là del verosimile, e una presenza misteriosa mina la felicità di due giovani…Questa raccolta pubblicata nel 1906 segna un punto di svolta nella produzione di London: oltre ai classici dell’avventura ambientati nella corsa all’oro, fanno la loro comparsa storie di ambientazione urbana e dai toni più leggeri, nonché racconti paranormali e del mistero, come L’ombra e il bagliore e Planchette

Dall’altra parte del mondo civilizzato, nel Pacifico meridionale, l’inglese David Sheldon difende la sua piantagione dagli attacchi dei selvaggi e dei cannibali. Una terribile epidemia di febbre uccide a poco a poco gran parte degli indigeni alle sue dipendenze e le possibilità di salvarsi sono ridotte al lumicino. In questa drammatica situazione, Sheldon vive nel più completo isolamento, in costante attesa dell’attacco decisivo delle tribù più ostili. Durante un violento uragano accade qualcosa che cambierà per sempre la sua vita. Joan Lackland, giovane americana con la passione per l’avventura, naufraga sull’isola con il suo equipaggio. Joan non è certo il tipo di donna che Sheldon immaginava di incontrare. È decisa, risoluta, capace di tenere a bada i suoi uomini. Soprattutto detesta qualsiasi intrusione nella sua vita e non sopporta i sentimentalismi. David e Joan diventano soci in affari e il loro è un rapporto formale, privo di qualsiasi intimità. Ma l’arrivo di Tudor, un avventuriero senza scrupoli, segnerà un’esperienza traumatica per entrambi e cambierà drammaticamente le loro vite.

"The Sea-Wolf", published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel by Jack London and one of his best-known works. This highly popular novel combines elements of naturalism and romantic adventure."The Sea-Wolf" narrates the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorises the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.

The Sea-Wolf: Illustrated by Jack London; Illustrated by W. J. Aylward, was published in 1904. Powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen.The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of a man. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication.Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote “The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen… the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime.”"This story surely has the pure Stevenson ring, the adventurous glamour, the vertebrate stoicism. 'Tis surely the story of the making of a man, the sculptor being Captain Larsen, and the clay, the ease-loving, well-to-do, half-drowned man, to all appearances his helpless prey." Critic.

Do not miss this action-packed story about a big-hearted dog that is now a major motion picture.

"The Iron Heel", american classic written by Jack London in 1908, is considered one of the earliest novels of modern Dystopian Fiction, which would lead to works later known as Soft Science Fiction. Jack London, a socialist himself, portrays America under tyrannical rule, the terrible oppression of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. London describes the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police and military, terrorise the citizenry. They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4, 1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52 socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for treason..."The Iron Heel" is based on Avis Everhard's fictional "Everhard Manuscript" and was written by London as a woman's first person narrative, not a common writing style at the time.

51 Complete Works of Jack LondonA Collection of StoriesA Daughter of the SnowsA Son Of The SunAdventureBefore AdamBoy Scouts Book of Campfire StoriesBrown Wolf and Other Jack London StoriesBurning DaylightChildren of the FrostDutch Courage and Other StoriesHearts of ThreeJerry of the IslandsJohn BarleycornLost FaceLove of LifeMartin EdenMichael, Brother of JerryMoon-Face and Other StoriesOn the Makaloa MatIsland TalesRevolution and Other EssaysSmoke BellewSouth Sea TalesStories of Ships and the SeaTales of the Fish PatrolTales of the KlondykeThe AcornPlanterThe Call of the WildThe Cruise of the DazzlerThe Cruise of the SnarkThe Faith of MenThe GameThe House of PrideThe Human DriftThe Iron HeelThe JacketThe Kempton-Wace LettersThe Little Lady of the Big HouseThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreThe Night-BornThe People of the AbyssThe Red OneThe RoadThe Scarlet PlagueThe Sea WolfThe Son of the WolfThe Strength of the StrongThe Turtles of TasmanThe Valley of the MoonTheftWar of the ClassesWhite Fang

Tales from Northland.THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS (excerpt)On every hand stretched the forest primeval,—the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still to overlap in the Land of the Rainbow's End—and this was the very heart of it—nor had Yankee gold yet purchased its vast domain. The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past. The sparse aborigines still acknowledged the rule of their chiefs and medicine men, drove out bad spirits, burned their witches, fought their neighbors, and ate their enemies with a relish which spoke well of their bellies. But it was at the moment when the stone age was drawing to a close. Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving,—fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race. By accident or design, single-handed and in twos and threes, they came from no one knew whither, and fought, or died, or passed on, no one knew whence. The priests raged against them, the chiefs called forth their fighting men, and stone clashed with steel; but to little purpose. Like water seeping from some mighty reservoir, they trickled through the dark forests and mountain passes, threading the highways in bark canoes, or with their moccasined feet breaking trail for the wolf-dogs. They came of a great breed, and their mothers were many; but the fur-clad denizens of the Northland had this yet to learn. So many an unsung wanderer fought his last and died under the cold fire of the aurora, as did his brothers in burning sands and reeking jungles, and as they shall continue to do till in the fulness of time the destiny of their race be achieved.It was near twelve. Along the northern horizon a rosy glow, fading to the west and deepening to the east, marked the unseen dip of the midnight sun. The gloaming and the dawn were so commingled that there was no night,—simply a wedding of day with day, a scarcely perceptible blending of two circles of the sun. A kildee timidly chirped good-night; the full, rich throat of a robin proclaimed good-morrow. From an island on the breast of the Yukon a colony of wild fowl voiced its interminable wrongs, while a loon laughed mockingly back across a still stretch of river...About Jack London: Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and 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. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

MOON-FACE (Excerpt)John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling. Perhaps that is why I hated him, for truly he had become an offense to my eyes, and I believed the earth to be cumbered with his presence. Perhaps my mother may have been superstitious of the moon and looked upon it over the wrong shoulder at the wrong time.Be that as it may, I hated John Claverhouse. Not that he had done me what society would consider a wrong or an ill turn. Far from it. The evil was of a deeper, subtler sort; so elusive, so intangible, as to defy clear, definite analysis in words. We all experience such things at some period in our lives. For the first time we see a certain individual, one who the very instant before we did not dream existed; and yet, at the first moment of meeting, we say: "I do not like that man." Why do we not like him? Ah, we do not know why; we know only that we do not. We have taken a dislike, that is all. And so I with John Claverhouse.What right had such a man to be happy? Yet he was an optimist. He was always gleeful and laughing. All things were always all right, curse him! Ah I how it grated on my soul that he should be so happy! Other men could laugh, and it did not bother me. I even used to laugh myself—before I met John Claverhouse.But his laugh! It irritated me, maddened me, as nothing else under the sun could irritate or madden me. It haunted me, gripped hold of me, and would not let me go. It was a huge, Gargantuan laugh. Waking or sleeping it was always with me, whirring and jarring across my heart-strings like an enormous rasp. At break of day it came whooping across the fields to spoil my pleasant morning revery. Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun. And at black midnight, from the lonely cross-roads where he turned from town into his own place, came his plaguey cachinnations to rouse me from my sleep and make me writhe and clench my nails into my palms.I went forth privily in the night-time, and turned his cattle into his fields, and in the morning heard his whooping laugh as he drove them out again. "It is nothing," he said; "the poor, dumb beasties are not to be blamed for straying into fatter pastures."...About Jack London: Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and 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. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. Thus began a journey that should "clarify the mystery of life".

A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals. John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society. John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Jack London is his pen name. This is a collection of his famous works: The call of the wild, White fang, Love of life, An odyssey of the north, To build a fire. The call of the wild has become a movie adaptation this year.   A well-structured, easy-to-read book, suitable for any e-reader, tablet or computer. The reader will go from one novel to another one, one chapter to another one as quick as possible. In this collection, we have also included a detailed biography of Jack London.

Unique to this title is: A Historical Introduction An Overview of The Call of The Wild A Study of The Themes Present in The Call of The Wild A list of famous quotes from The Call of The Wild You may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. Jack London was born in San Franciso in 1876,  as John Griffith Chaney. He was an illegitimate child of Flora Wellman and William Chaney. When Chaney refused to marry Flora Wellman, she tried to kill herself. She survived, but refused to take care of the baby. So, London was raised by an African-American woman and a former slave. His mother later married a man named John London and that is probably how his surname changed to London. In The Call of The Wild Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world. Enjoy this Timeless Classic!

The Cruise of the Dazzler by Jack London. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy’s adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities. The nautical activities on board a sailing boat are authentically described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats enduring stormy weather at sea. Joe Bronson, instead of studying for a school exam, goes out kite-flying with his school friends; on their way back he gets involved in fights with gang members in a poor part of the city. After he fails the exam the next day, he walks out of school and takes a ferry across the bay to Oakland. Looking at the boats on the wharf, he imagines the exciting life on a boat. His father, a businessman, has a liberal attitude to his son; but, critical of his recent behavior and poor school report, tells him that he might send him to a military academy. Joe later leaves a farewell note for his family; returning to Oakland, he joins the crew of a sloop, the Dazzler. The captain Pete Le Maire is known as ”French Pete”, and the one other crew member is ‘Frisco Kid, a boy of about Joe’s age.

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay. Not but that I was afloat in a safe craft, for the Martinez was a new ferry-steamer, making her fourth or fifth trip on the run between Sausalito and San Francisco. The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension. In fact, I remember the placid exaltation with which I took up my position on the forward upper deck, directly beneath the pilot-house, and allowed the mystery of the fog to lay hold of my imagination. A fresh breeze was blowing, and for a time I was alone in the moist obscurity—yet not alone, for I was dimly conscious of the presence of the pilot, and of what I took to be the captain, in the glass house above my head.

Le Loup des mers (The Sea-Wolf) est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London publié aux États-Unis en 1904. Présentation | La Raison du plus fort : voilà la devise de Loup Larsen, capitaine de la goélette Le Fantôme. Violent, brutal, meurtrier, ne vivant que pour vaincre et dompter les autres, Loup, à la force de titan, terrorise son équipage fruste de matelots et de chasseurs de phoques. Secouru à la suite d'un naufrage, Humphrey Van Weyden, homme de lettres distingué, est contraint d'intégrer l'équipage de la goélette pour « apprendre à marcher avec ses deux jambes »...|

Le Vagabond des étoiles (The Star Rover) est un roman fantastique de l’écrivain américain Jack London, publié en 1915. Il est considéré comme l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de l’auteur. Présentation Jack London ne cessera de dénoncer la brutalité des prisons. Il écrira dans son roman autobiographique Les Vagabonds du rail : « La manière dont sont traités les hommes est tout simplement une des très moindres horreurs impubliables du pénitencier du comté d’Erié. Je dis « impubliables » mais je devrais plutôt dire « impensables ». Elles étaient impensables pour moi jusqu’à ce que je les voie, et pourtant je n’étais pas une poule mouillée ; je connaissais déjà les aléas du monde et les horribles abysses de la déchéance humaine. Il faudrait lâcher une boule de plomb très lourde pour qu’elle atteigne le fond de l’océan, soit le comté d’Erié, et je ne fais qu’effleurer légèrement et facétieusement la surface des choses telles que je les ai vues là-bas. » Résumé | En Californie, enfermé dans la Prison d’État de San Quentin, le professeur Darrel Standing attend son exécution. Sur ses huit années d’incarcération, il en a passé cinq dans les ténèbres d’un cachot surnommé la « mort vivante », pour rébellion. Il y a subi le supplice de la camisole de force. Pour échapper à cette situation intenable, et suivant le conseil d’un codétenu avec lequel il communique par tapotements contre le mur, il pratique l’auto-hypnose, et s’évade par la pensée. Ce procédé lui permet de revivre, tour à tour, certaines de ses vies antérieures…| |Wikipédia|

Jack London spent a year living in the Yukon and drew heavily upon his experiences there while writing his two classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. He later said, "It was in the Klondike that I found myself." The Call of the Wild is one of London"s most popular novels. The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140lb Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands a number of times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton. Thornton takes ownership of Buck from a trio of ignorant stampeders, intent upon making a dangerous river crossing. Buck refuses to cross, despite a vicious beating. Thornton recognizes the dogs intelligence and strength. He steps in to claim the dog and nurses Buck back to health. But Buck is forever changed by the treatment he has received at the hands of other men. A companion novel to The Call of the Wild, White Fang is the story of a wild dog"s journey toward becoming civilized. The much loved book is characteristic of London"s precise prose style and innovation use of voice and perspective. Much of the novel is written from the viewpoint of the animals, allowing London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness—despite both animal and human predators—and eventually comes to make his peace with man. Both editions includes illustrations and links to free full-length audio recordings of The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

Buck, figlio di un San Bernardo e di una femmina di razza Collie, passa le proprie giornate in tranquillità nella valle di Santa Clara. Un giorno, il giardiniere della villa, per pagare alcuni debiti lo ruba, rivendendolo come cane da slitta in Alaska a una coppia di cercatori d’oro. Nonostante il radicale cambiamento di vita, il cane impara ad adattarsi alle nuove regole diventando col tempo un leader rispettato dai compagni della muta. Dopo questa esperienza viene nuovamente venduto a Charles, a sua moglie e al fratello, un trio di improvvisati avventurieri che non sanno come gestire un branco di cani da slitta e nemmeno come fronteggiare l’ostile territorio dell’Alaska. Incontrano durante il loro viaggio John Thornton, un vero amante della natura e dei cani che capisce subito le condizioni pessime nelle quali versa il povero Buck, ormai allo stremo delle forze e denutrito. Dopo averlo liberato, il nuovo padrone cura il cane e lo riporta agli antichi splendori di forza e coraggio. Sempre in viaggio alla ricerca dell’oro, una notte, di ritorno dalla caccia, il protagonista trova Thornton e i suoi compari trucidati dagli indiani che stanno festeggiando l’avvenuto massacro. Buck, solo contro tutti, riesce a vendicare il suo amico/padrone uccidendo tutti i pellerossa. Ormai libero si unisce a un gruppo di lupi conosciuto nel frattempo seguendo così il proprio richiamo della foresta.

Diversi per ambientazione e sviluppo, ma accomunati da una narrazione forte e appassionante, i racconti di "Quando Dio ride" non possono lasciare indifferente il lettore, sia che narrino di una sfida per portare in salvo l'equipaggio di una nave in fiamme persa fra gli atolli della Polinesia Francese, sia che descrivano un duello tra un ladro e la sua ricca e prepotente vittima, o ancora le storture dell'amministrazione della giustizia controllata dalla politica. Sono però soprattutto le personalità dei protagonisti a emergere, incarnando – nella tradizione del miglior London – il coraggio di affrontare un ambiente ostile e soverchiante, l'aspirazione alla giustizia, la fatica di resistere alla prepotenza e alle sopraffazioni di una società spietata, il senso di disfatta di fronte a un Dio che ride di ogni umano tentativo di riscatto.

SOLIDARIETA" DIGITALE : tutto il nostro catalogo in promozione! EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 06/09/2018. Siamo in America, ai tempi della corsa all’oro. Ultimo di una cucciolata, della quale è l’unico sopravvissuto, è un piccolo cane con una zampa anteriore bianca .La madre Kiche viene adottata da una famiglia di indiani capeggiata da Castoro Grigio, che chiama il piccolo ‘Zanna Bianca’. La madre, tuttavia, viene ceduta e scompare dalla vita del cucciolo che se la dovrà vedere con gli altri cani. Questi, infatti, proprio per via di quella zampa, lo vedono come un lupo. Zanna Bianca cresce quindi sempre più selvaggio, scontroso e solitario. Un giorno, Castoro Grigio lo porta con sé a Fort Yukon e qui Smith ‘il Bello’, uomo crudele e sanguinario, lo convince a vendergli il cane. Zanna Bianca inizia ad essere utilizzato per i combattimenti dove ottiene eccellenti risultati sino a quando viene assalito da un bulldog. Quando il lupo sta ormai per soccombere, il ricco californiano Weedon Scott interviene per salvarlo. Con infinita pazienza, l’uomo riesce a rieducare il cane e a donargli un’esistenza più normale e dignitosa, facendogli conoscere sentimenti come l’affetto e l’amore, finora sconosciuti a Zanna Bianca. Il lupo si affeziona talmente tanto al nuovo padrone che questi lo porta con sé in California, dove l’animale impara la vita di città e le regole di convivenza con gli altri cani.

Jack London’s dystopian novel The Iron Heel posits a futuristic world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a menacing oligarchy that rules through terror. Anticipating the science fiction novels of the 1960s and "70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying less attention to technological details. Much of the narrative is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, including events in San Francisco and Sonoma County.

Adventure tells about the confrontation between a man who finds himself alone in front of a plantation - harassed by blacks cannibals - and a bold, independent and liberated feminist woman, Joan Lackland, who's arrival at the plantation turns everything upside down...

Jack London (1876-1916) lived a short life over a hundred years ago but is still one of the most widely read and translated authors in the world. His The Call of the Wild and White Fang are studied in schools and universities wherever English is spoken. And a new generation of eBook readers has discovered and embraced other less well-known works by London such as Love of Life and John Barleycorn. Six of London’s best pieces are gathered in Jack London Six Pack, a digital delight for fans of London’s work and of classic American literature in general. Jack London Six Pack The Call of the Wild White Fang A Day’s Lodging John Barleycorn Love of Life Hobos That Pass in the Night. Digital edition includes original illustrations and links to free unabridged audio recordings of selected works.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London"s most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.

The Call of the Wild is one of Jack London"s most popular novels. The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140lb Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands a number of times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton. Thornton takes ownership of Buck from a trio of ignorant stampeders, intent upon making a dangerous river crossing. Buck refuses to cross, despite a vicious beating. Thornton recognizes the dogs intelligence and strength. He steps in to claim the dog and nurses Buck back to health. But Buck is forever changed by the treatment he has received at the hands of other men.