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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.

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. Drawing on his wolf heritage, Buck must fight for survival in an alien environment.

Tales of the frozen North and the men and women who dared to challenge it, by the author of The Call of the Wild.

"Yah! Yah! Yah!" written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath.

Jack London's South Sea Tales is a collection of eight short stories set in the South Pacific. The stories include: "The House of Mapuhi", "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki", "Yah! Yah! Yah!", "The Heathen", "The Terrible Solomons", "The Inevitable White Man", and "The Seed of McCoy".

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.

This collection contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research. As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.

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.

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903. 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.

"Martin Eden", le plus autobiographique des romans de Jack London, est le récit d'un écrivain né dans les bas-fonds, homme de rien basculé dans la bourgeoisie qui croit tenir sa revanche sur la vie... C'est aussi la rencontre d'un homme et d'une femme ; l'occasion enfin de découvrir le vrai visage de Jack London, une personnalité rare à la source de notre modernité. Son œuvre, dont "Martin Eden" est le point d'orgue, a fasciné des millions de lecteurs. Denis Podalydès nous offre une lecture vibrante et délicate, inoubliable.

Jack London was one of the most notable authors of his time, and this collection showcases some of his most popular short stories. Filled with reflections on the human condition, our interactions with wilderness, and the chance of underlying magic that surrounds us all, these short stories offer a brief respite from the bustling world around us. This collection of short stories contains "A Thousand Deaths", "An Odyssey of the North", "A Relic of the Pliocene", "The Law of Life", "The Minions of Midas", "To Build a Fire", "Grit of Women", "That Spot", "Flush of Gold", and "Lost Face".

"Deti moroza" - sbornik rasskazov amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Opublikovan v 1902 godu, odin iz pervyh sbornikov, vyshedshih otdel'nymi izdanijami. Rasskazy sbornika posvjashheny zhizni amerikancev-zolotoiskatelej i korennyh zhitelej na dal'nem severe.

The Sun-Dog Trail by Jack London is set in the harsh wilderness of the Alaskan Yukon. The story is told by the friend of an Indian guide named Sitka Charlie who is paid by a white woman to take her on a sled journey of 1,500 miles. Sitka Charlie buys dogs and a sled and they travel over to Indian River, to Sulphur Creek, to Dominion, and back across the divide to Dawson. There, a man, John Jones, joins them. They follow the trail of another man to the Bering Straits where someone is killed....

Masterpieces of American Literature is a curated collection of twelve iconic novels and stories that highlight the rich diversity and depth of American writing. Featuring illustrated editions of classics like Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Ayn Rand's Anthem, and H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, this anthology spans genres from romanticism and realism to modernism and early science fiction, showcasing the breadth of American literary tradition.

An adapted and illustrated edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild - at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Buck, a wealthy judge's dog, leads a quiet life until he is kidnapped, sold and taken to the freezing north. Forced to become a sled dog, Buck learns to love the harsh, natural world.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a gripping maritime adventure from Jack London, following a brutal mutiny aboard a doomed ship. With treacherous storms, a ruthless crew, and a fight for survival, this novel delves into the harsh realities of life at sea.

The Heathen is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of 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".

Jack London’un ölümünden önce kaleme aldığı ve tamamlayamadan geride bıraktığı sıra dışı taslak... Dinleyeceğiniz bu sesli kitapta, o ilk haliyle, London’ın kendi dilinden çıkan o sert, çelişkili ve derin metni seslendirdik. Düzenlenmemiş haliyle ilk kez dinlenecek bu versiyon, yazarın zihninde hâlâ çarpan sorularla dolu. Ahlaki gerekçelerle cinayet işleyen bir örgüt... Fikir babası, sonunda kendi kurduğu düzene hedef olur... Kurallar değişmemiştir ama pusula sapmıştır...

Eine spannende Reise in die Ursprünge des Kriminalromans: Diese Sammlung von zehn klassischen Geschichten vereint die größten Meister der klassischen Spannungsliteratur. Von Edgar Allan Poes düsteren Visionen über Sherlock Holmes' messerscharfe Logik bis zu Chestertons moralphilosophischen Detektivrätseln – hier begegnen sich Wahnsinn, Mord, Mysterien und meisterhafte Erzählkunst.