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Quando viene sottratto alla sua tranquilla vita californiana e venduto a un trafficante a di cani da slitta, le giornate soleggiate di Buck si trasformano in una tempesta di neve. Niente sarà più come prima. Ora deve imparare a stare al sicuro in un mondo pieno di pericoli nascosti, che lo minacciano a ogni passo che fa. Ora la sua vita ruota attorno alla corsa all'oro del Klondike nell'Alaska glaciale, dove il freddo, la neve e torrenti impetuosi segnano la frontiera tra la vita e la morte. L'unica legge è quella della sopravvivenza a ogni costo.

El 25 de julio de 1897, Jack London , un joven de veintiú años de origen humilde que se ganaba la vida con la pesca clandestina de ostras en la bahía de San Francisco, decidió probrar suerte y se embarcó en el vapor Umatilla rumbo al valle del Klondike, en la lejana Alaska, seducido por las noticias que traían algunos aventureros sobre la aparición de vetas de oro en tan inhóspito lugar.

In diesem Hörbuch finden Sie neben der neu eingesprochenen Erzählung Der Mexikaner zudem einen Audio-Essay über die Hintergründe zur Entstehung der Geschichte. Lesen Sie im Folgenden den Anfang des Essays: Der Mexikaner ist die letzte von vier Geschichten, die Jack London dezidiert im Metier des Boxsports ansiedelt. Zuvor hatte er, in zeitlich recht loser Folge den Kurzroman The Game, die Erzählung A piece of Steak und die Geschichte Abysmal Brute verfasst.

Romanzo breve post-apocalittico, fu pubblicato nel 1912, anticipa tutto il filone dei romanzi fantasy post-catastrofi, così diffusi in seguito sia in letteratura che nella filmografia. La peste rossa, che colpisce la terra nel 2013, viene raccontata da un sopravvissuto 60 anni dopo, a una nuova generazione semi-barbara.

Wolfsblut ist einer der erfolgreichsten Romane des Autors Jack London und erzählt die Geschichte eines Halbwolfes in der kanadischen Wildnis am Yukon, zur Zeit des Goldrausches um 1898. Als einziger Welpe aus einem Wurf seiner Mutter Kische überlebt er eine schlimme Hungersnot und tritt seine Reise ins Leben an. Er landet bei einem Indianerstamm, wo er als Schlittenhund des Häuptlings gehalten wird, aber ein Außenseiter unter den Hunden bleibt.

Das rauhe Leben im hohen Norden war Jack Londons Spezialität. Die Hörbuch Box versammelt drei Abenteuergeschichten: Der Ruf der Wildnis, Wolfsblut sowie Wie man ein Feuer macht.

Buck recognised the wild brother. He was whining softly, and they touched noses. A second wolf, old and battle-scarred, came forward and sniffed noses with him; he sat down, pointed his nose at the moon and broke out in a long wolf howl. Buck, too, sat down and howled. Buck, a big, powerful dog, is kidnapped from his California home and sold as a sled dog in the Arctic.

"Martin Eden", pubblicato in un primo tempo a puntate, dal 1908 al 1909, fu poi pubblicato come libro nel 1909. Il protagonista, un giovane marinaio, si lancia nel mondo della cultura quasi come in una guerra, spinto da un amore idealizzato. Lo studio indefesso, la spinta alla creazione letteraria, le numerose sconfitte contro il muro del sistema editoriale e i temi filosofici e sociali dell'epoca sono i punti trainanti dell'opera. Cornice musicale: "Martin Eden" di Bill Hughes.

The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the wild.

Jeder backt mal kleine Brötchen - auch Jack London fing als Verfasser von Groschenromanen an. Zwei seiner früheren Erzählungen sind in diesem Hörbuch zu finden. Western-Heros live forever. Peng Peng: "Das Gesetz des Lebens" und "Der Sohn des Wolfes".

Diese abenteuerliche Goldgräbergeschichte stammt aus der Feder eines erzählerischen Naturtalents, das so ganz aus dem eigenen abenteuerlichen Leben schöpfte. Eine fesselnde und zugleich nachdenklich stimmende Geschichte.

La historia sigue a un hombre y su compañero, quienes, después de un viaje fallido por el Ártico canadiense en busca de oro, se encuentran luchando por sobrevivir en el inhóspito paisaje. Ambos están debilitados, hambrientos y exhaustos. Durante su lucha, el compañero del protagonista decide dejarlo atrás, pensando que está demasiado débil para continuar. Sin embargo, el hombre se niega a rendirse y sigue avanzando, impulsado por su deseo innato de sobrevivir y su amor por la vida.

The story of The Scarlet Plague takes place in 2073 in the San Francisco area, 60 years after an apocalyptic pandemic called the Red Death or Scarlet Plague has depopulated the Earth. James Smith, one of the survivors, lives with his grandsons who are hunter-gatherers in a tribal world. He relates the horror of the plague to them, and tells them of the time when he was a professor of English, and of the start of the pandemic. His grandsons, who are of limited cognitive ability, refuse to believe him; they cannot believe that the disease was spread by germs.

En période de pénurie un tout jeune homme se lance dans un périple à travers les États-Unis en empruntant les trains de façon clandestine. Entre errance et aventure, sorte de clochard ferroviaire, il serra confronté à la faim, au froid, aux doutes, aux humiliations, à des rencontres plus ou moins recommandables et aussi à la prison. Par ce récit tiré de son expérience autobiographique, l'auteur nous livre un parcours chaotique dans un monde parfois brutal, parfois secourable mais où l'emporte la soif de liberté d'une jeunesse audacieuse.

Stolen by a gardener's assistant, Buck, a St. Bernard cross, is taken from his comfortable life in the south and sold as a sled dog at the height of the Klondike gold rush. Thrust into the savage world of the frozen north, Buck must reconnect with his old ancestry to survive in this forbidding environment. Written by Jack London who spent a year himself in the Yukon, The Call of the Wild has never been out of print since its initial release in 1903.

Jack London was an American novelist and journalist who is considered the world’s first literary celebrity. Looking at The Story of Keesh, published in 1904, it is clear how London could have achieved such prominence. The Story of Keesh is a simple yet compelling short moral fable about the eponymous Keesh, an outcast of an Inuit tribe, and his quest to honor his late father’s legacy by providing the condemnatory but starving tribe with meat.

Jack London (1876-1916) wrote extensively of the Klondike Gold Rush. This is the story of Kink Mitchell and Hootchinoo Bill who came to the Yukon in 1896. The claim called 24 Eldorado finally brought a huge surprise for them and for Ans Handerson.

"La peste scarlatta" (The Scarlet Plague) è un romanzo post-apocalittico di Jack London pubblicato nel 1912. Si tratta di un testo visionario in cui l'autore anticipa temi destinati ad avere larga diffusione nei decenni successivi e rimane ancor oggi un punto di riferimento di un genere che gode di fortuna crescente nei film, nelle serie TV, nei fumetti.

An entrancing collection of 50 great short stories by leading classic writers.

Um das Leben der Obdachlosen in England kennen zu lernen, tauchte Jack London 1902 für sieben Wochen als einer von ihnen in den Slums des Londoner East Ends unter. Als Ergebnis seiner Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse erschien 1903 der mit Statistiken und anderem Faktenmaterial untermauerte Roman "Die Menschen des Abgrunds", ein Lehrstück über soziale Kälte und ein kritischer Augenzeugenbericht über das Elend der Arbeiter in London.