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FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Llamada de la Selva de Jack London, que narra la historia de un perro llamado Buck, nacido del cruce de un San Bernardo con una perra escocesa de pastor. Su existencia ha transcurrido en las tibias tierras del Sur como dueño indiscutible de la granja del juez Miller. Pero, su plácida vida doméstica da un giro inesperado, al ser robado por uno de los empleados de la granja y vendido a unos traficantes.

FonoLibro presentar Colmillo Blanco de Jack London. Protagonizada por un perro lobo nacido del cruce entre una perra con aspecto de loba y un lobo auténtico. Colmillo Blanco, llamado así por la blancura de sus dientes, pasa sus días rodeado de un ambiente hostil....

Jack London is primarily known for his novels and short stories that center around the natural world. The Road is a more personal story and takes listeners through London’s experiences in poverty in the late 1800s, which was the time of the largest economic depression in the US to that day. London writes about his experiences begging, sneaking onto trains, taking on many odd jobs, and evading the police who are out to arrest any vagrants.

Jack London’s White Fang is an impactful examination of the harsh realities of nature and the damage humans can cause, but also of the will to survive that is common between humans and wild animals alike. The story follows White Fang, a feisty wolf pup that becomes a vicious wolf due to his interactions with harsh human masters. He is shuffled between masters throughout his life and taught to be destructive but is eventually shown love and compassion by a human and learns gentleness as an adult wolf.

Drei von Jack Londons unvergesslichen Geschichten vereint in einer Sammlung, packend und mitreißend für Fans von zeitlosen Abenteuergeschichten. "Wolfsblut" erzählt die Geschichte eines Welpen, der durch die harte Schule menschlicher Herren geht, bevor er seine wahre Wolfsseele und die Wildnis wiederfindet. "Die Goldschlucht" nimmt uns mitten hinein in den kalifornischen Goldrausch, wo unser Held eine geheime Schlucht findet und dort beginnt nach Gold zu schürfen - mit dramatischen Folgen.

"Die Liebe zum Leben" gilt zurecht als eine der besten Kurzgeschichten von Jack London, welche die Leiden eines in der Wildnis Verirrten eindringlich schildert. Ebenso eindringlich in Bilder gesetzt innerhalb der legendären "Seewolf"-Verfilmung.

Deux ans à la découverte des îles du Pacifique Sud (les îles Hawaii, la Polynésie française, les îles Samoa et la Mélanésie) à bord de son yacht, le Snark, inspirent à Jack London ces huit nouvelles. Des récits captivants et violents dénonçant le colonialisme, la surexploitation de la nature, plaçant l'homme face aux éléments, luttant pour sa survie avec tout le talent de cet aventurier.

"The quintessential Jack London is in the on-rushing compulsive-ness of his northern stories," noted James Dickey. "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." This collection includes famous works of Jack London: Call of the Wild ; White Fang ; Love of Life.

Presented here are two of Jack London's most popular adventure stories of canine survival and hardship in the frozen north: the literary classics "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."

La joie du surf présente toutes les qualités des meilleurs textes de non-fiction ou de journalisme littéraire. L’alliance de la poésie et de la précision technique est particulièrement intéressante, notamment lorsque London pose cette jolie question : "Qu’est-ce qu’une vague ?". Si la "maîtrise de la matière" est cruciale dans la pratique de ce sport, London affirme que le secret du surf repose en réalité moins sur la force et la domination des vagues que sur une absence de résistance à leur déferlement, c’est-à-dire une forme de souplesse, d’abandon et d’humilité.

Kitabın özgün adı: John Barleycorn. Jack London’ın 1913 yılında yazdığı, ‘otobiyografik’ olarak da niteleyebileceğimiz bir kitaptır. ‘Barleycorn’ kelimesi bira ve viski yapımında kullanılan arpa üzerinden alkol çağrışımı yapan uydurma bir isimdir. Alkolü özellikle onun sıkça içine dahil olduğu "erkek cemaatlerinin" iletişimini kuran önemli bir araç olarak tanımlayan London, öznel iradesiyle sürdüremediği alkolü bırakma mücadelesinde, yasaları bile yardıma çağırıyor.

Jack London’ın öz yaşam öyküsü ve anılarını barındıran "Demiryolu Serserileri" ilk kez 1907 yılında basılmıştır. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin o zamana kadar yaşadığı en kötü ekonomik buhranın yaşandığı 1890’lı yıllarda London, bir 'hobo' olarak yaşadıklarını kaleme almıştır. Ünlü yazar, yük trenlerine kaçak binişlerini, görevliler onu aşağı atmaya çalışırken “tutunma çabasını”, yiyecek ve para için nasıl dilendiğini ve polisleri kandırmak için ne gibi sıra dışı hikayeler uydurduğunu bizlere taşıyor.

Jack London az rastlanır anlatı yeteneğiyle kendisini ilgilendiren birçok farklı alanda eserler verdi. Ademden Önce. ilk insanın çarpıcı öyküsüyle genetik kodlanmayı. rüyaları ve ilkel yaşamı keşfe çıkan bir roman. Oldukça sert çizilen karakterler ve sürükleyici dramatik yapı okura büyük bir okuma zevki ve düşünme vesilesi vaat ediyor.

Jack London, 1876 yılında San Francisco'da doğdu. Asıl adı John Griffith Chaney'dir. İşi gereği çok gezen bir astrologun oğluydu. Babası tarafından terkedildikten sonra California'da annesinin ve London soyadını aldığı üvey babasının yanında yetişti. Çok hareketli ve maceralı bir hayat yaşadı. Ondört yaşında okulu terkederek tayfa olarak çalıştığı bir gemiyle Japonya'ya gitti. Ondokuz yaşında dört yıllık orta öğrenimini bir yılda tamamlayarak California Üniversitesi'ne girdiyse de bir yıl sonra okulu bırakarak Klandike bölgesinde altın arayanlara katıldı.

The Pearls of Parlay (1911) Parlay, who has become the ruler of the atoll of Hikihoho after marrying the queen there, summons the leading traders of the South Seas to his atoll for an auction of the whole of his fabulous collection of pearls. But that day is precisely at the peak of the hurricane season and when their ships have gathered in the atoll's lagoon the barometer starts going through the floor, as the mother of all hurricanes is on the verge of destroying not only all the ships but the island as well.

Jack London was an outstanding American writer, publicist and public figure, the author of numerous adventure stories and tales. Jack London is famous for his short stories and novels, but he also enthusiastically studied poetry and even made an attempt to establish a reputation for himself as a poet.

The God of His Fathers: Tales of The Klondyke. It was written by Jack London in the 1919 year. As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London's best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive.

The Law of Life is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers. This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh. His tribe needs to travel in search of clothing and shelter so he is left to die because of his age and inability to see properly. Even his son has to leave him because he has a new family to feed and take care of.

An Odyssey of the North is a short story by Jack London that explore the wild and rugged nature of the northern coast of British Columbia. This story is filled with adventure and capture the beauty of nature and the mysteries of the sea. Naass, a young Aleut man, wins a young woman of the tribe, Unga, only to have her stolen from him on the night of their marriage celebration by a seven-foot-tall, yellow-haired white man, Axel Gunderson. Naass spends years tracking his nemesis, determined to claim his bride and take vengeance.

Where the Trail Forks is a late 19th century work of literature and is fiction. London's main purpose in this text is to entertain his readers by revealing to them an exciting fictitious event. London ties his story in with naturalism by describing natures terrain and landscape in many instances. Throughout the story there are many encounters with nature itself as well as wild animals such as dogs. Jack londons diction in this piece can be related to the diction reflecting the time period this work of literature was written.