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Buck je čtyřletý pastevecký pes hýčkaný svým pánem a jeho rodinou. Jeho život se rázem změní ve chvíli, kdy je unesen a prodán, aby sloužil během zlaté horečky na Klondiku, v kanadské provincii Yukon. Psi, dostatečně silní k zapřažení do saní v těžkém sněhu, zde mají obrovskou cenu. Jen díky své houževnatosti a přátelství se zálesákem Thorntonem dokáže Buck přežít mezi krutými lidmi. V novém prostředí brzy zjistí, že jeho vrozené instinkty mu umožní nejen přežít, ale že ve svobodném, volném a divokém životě nakonec nachází i zalíbení.

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.

"Buck ne lisait pas les journaux, sinon il aurait su que cela risquait de barder, pas seulement pour lui, mais pour tous les chiens de la côte, à forte musculature et à longs poils chauds, du détroit de Puget à San Diego. Des hommes, qui cherchaient à l'aveuglette dans les ténèbres arctiques, avaient découvert un métal jaune, et des compagnies de paquebots et de navigation claironnaient la trouvaille : voilà pourquoi des milliers d'êtres humains se ruaient vers les terres du Nord. Or ces hommes voulaient des chiens."

The Call of the Wild is the story of a dog in the frozen Yukon told from his point of view. But this brilliantly told tale of a canine hero is in fact a graphic picture of the great gold rush to the Klondike in 1897. Brutal and fierce on one hand, it is also a story of tenderness and loyalty between man and beast and remains one of the best- selling books in American literary history.

This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection.

A tidewater dog named Buck is stolen from his original owner and catapulted into an arena of bad men and dogs during the gold rush in northern Alaska. "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing", and thus begins the start of hardship, mistreatment, and the will to survive. Toughening, maddening, and overcoming are the hallmarks of this great classic. Don't miss it.

Listen to Burning Daylight with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was his best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith.

Kun kultakuume riehuu 1890-luvulla Yukonin armottomassa erämaassa Kanadassa, Valkohammas-niminen susikoira alkaa kesyyntyä. Teos on kirjoitettu pääosin susikoiran näkökulmasta, ja siinä käsitellään sekä ihmisen että eläimen väkivaltaista ja armotonta maailmaa. Elämä on loputonta, ankaraa selviytymistaistelua, jossa joko tapetaan tai tullaan tapetuksi. "Susikoira" on kuin peili - käänteinen tarina kirjailija Jack Londonin tunnetuimmasta romaanista "Erämaan kutsu". Ensimmäisen kerran "Susikoira" filmatisoitiin vuonna 1925 ja viimeisimpänä sitä versioi Netflix vuonna 2018.

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.

En 1902, Jack London llegó a Londres con la intención de escribir un reportaje sobre el East End, la zona este de la ciudad, donde se hizo pasar por un vagabundo, con el fin de poder penetrar en el Abismo, tal como él lo llamaba. Su curiosidad le llevó a visitar los slums, los llamados barrios pobres de la ciudad, en donde se hacinaban cientos de personas en condiciones infrahumanas, mientras que las clases acomodadas se beneficiaban de la política colonial que el Imperio llevaba a cabo en sus colonias.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja znamenityj roman "Morskoj volk" amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona (1876-1916), o kapitane shhuny Prizrak Volke Larsone, strannoj lichnosti: bezzhalostnom, grubom, sil'nom cheloveke i v to zhe vremja svoeobraznom filosofe... Glavnyj geroj Hjemfri Van-Vejden, spasjonnyj s zatonuvshego parohoda jekipazhem promyslovoj shhuny, perezhivaet mnogo trudnostej i unizhenij v bor'be s morem i nepredskazuemym harakterom kapitana, po pravu nosjashhego prozvishhe Volk Larsen.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the story's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent. Rarely has the raw realism of life on the edge of civilization been so vividly captured.

From Jack London comes another tale of the wild. In this story the wild half-wolf White Fang survives a harsh living in America's frozen northland. First in the wild, then as a dog of the Indian peoples, then as a fighting dog, before at last finding a good home in the south.

Para concluir seus estudos, Frona decide sair de sua cidade natal onde os homens seguem a lei do mais forte. Ela retorna anos depois, determinada a se casar. Dois homens disputam seu amor, mas a decisão não é tão simples quanto parece: o que é mais importante em um homem, a sua aparência ou o seu intelecto? Ela acaba por descobrir aquilo que é essencial em um companheiro. Jack London (1876-1916), escritor americano, nasceu como John Griffith Chaney. Desde muito jovem, ele trabalhou em muitas profissões, como carpinteiro e agricultor, o que o fez sonhar com a liberdade e aventuras.

Croc-Blanc, un jeune chien-loup, vit en proie aux méchancetés d'hommes obnubilés par une ruée impitoyable vers l'or. Il en vient même à risquer sa vie et c'est alors qu'enfin les hommes vont lui montrer un autre visage de l'humanité.

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.

John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876, in San Francisco. In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing. During the late 1890s Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full-blown novels.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild (1903), which is about a kidnapped domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

This is a new edition of Jack London's classic chapter on surfing entitled "The Royal Sport", first published in his famous book called The Cruise of the Snark.