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An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories, including "The Tale-Tell Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "The Hand", "Was it a Dream?", and "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; "Moon-Face" by Jack London; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is an American literary treasure. Set in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon Territory during the 1890s Klondike gold rush, this fictional tale opens when Buck, a dog that is part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, is kidnapped from his comfortable home in Northern California. He soon finds himself heading north where large, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck learns to adapt to the frozen, Arctic land.

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.

What Mr. London did so graphically for the poorest quarters of London a few years ago, he now does for the American underworld of the tramp and hobo, a territory in which his young wanderlust led him far afield.

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.

"To Kill a Man" by Jack London (1876-1916) is a story about an intruder being caught by one of the inhabitants of a house. An interesting conversation ensues. At the end, the intruder shames the woman who had held him captive for a while.

Más de 25 horas de audiolibros: Tarzán de los Monos, de Edgar Rice Burroughs - Dramatizado; El Corazon de las Tinieblas, de Joseph Conrad - Dramatizado; Nada Es lo Que Parece, de Alejandro Khan - Dramatizado; y La Llamada del Instinto, de Jack London - Dramatizado. Grandes aventuras!

"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.

The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, was the first example of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, 60 years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013. One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias “Granser”, tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death.

A departure from London’s normal tales of the frozen North, all of these tales take place in the islands of Hawaii. The tales deal with racial issues, family relationships, leprosy quarantines, missionaries, and the diverse people who make their homes on the beautiful Hawaiian islands. London traveled to Hawaii in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including an eight-month stay shortly before he died in 1916. He had a fondness for the islands that is apparent in the rich descriptions in these tales.

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

Experience a masterpiece of American literature in audio! The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature.

A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers, including 'The Cone' by H. G. Wells, 'The Dream Woman' by Wilkie Collins, 'Fortunes Adrift' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon, 'The Table Under the Tree' by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 'In Yeddo Bay' by Jack London and many more gripping short stories by famous 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.

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild. London spent almost a year in the Yukon collecting material for the book.

A brilliant collection of some of the finest old sea stories ever written. 'The Overcrowded Iceberg' by Morley Roberts, 'The Substitute' by W. W. Jacobs, 'Reparation' by J. D. Beresford, 'The Paradise Coal-Boat' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Registered Packet' by J. S. Fletcher, 'Treasure Trove' by Neil Munro, 'The Vengeance of La Maraye' by J. S. Fletcher, 'The Sea-Raiders' by H. G. Wells, 'No Ships Pass' by Eleanor Smith....

John Griffith 'Jack' London (1876 - 1916) was a popular American novelist, journalist and social activist. 'In Yeddo Bay' is the adventure of a young sailor who has lost his purse while ashore in a Japanese port. How is he to get back to his ship without the 'ten sen' required as advance payment by the sampan men?