Resultados de "Jack London" en Todas las categorias

El relato sigue a un buscador de oro solitario, referido simplemente como "el hombre", mientras se adentra en un hermoso cañón virgen en busca de una veta de oro. El cañón, descrito con una rica y detallada naturaleza, está lleno de vida, con animales que viven en armonía. Al llegar, el hombre se siente casi culpable por perturbar este paraíso natural con su búsqueda de oro. Sin embargo, se establece en el cañón y comienza a excavar. Después de varios días de arduo trabajo, finalmente encuentra pequeñas pepitas de oro.

El relato sigue a Bob McGee, un joven aventurero en busca de oro en el Klondike. Aunque ha enfrentado numerosos desafíos y peligros en su búsqueda, Bob sigue siendo optimista y siempre espera encontrar oro "al final del arco iris". A lo largo de su viaje, Bob se encuentra con otros buscadores de oro, algunos amigables y otros no tanto. Estos encuentros a menudo resultan en situaciones tensas y potencialmente peligrosas, ya que todos están en la misma búsqueda y la competencia es feroz. Un día, Bob encuentra una pista prometedora y comienza a excavar. Después de un arduo trabajo, finalmente descubre una veta de oro.

El vagabundo de las estrellas es la última novela que escribió Jack London. Es una feroz crítica de la tortura y de la pena de muerte, y una metáfora del placer emancipador de la lectura.

The greatest short story writers strive to achieve a single, dramatic effect, a feature which the early masters of this genre perfected. Although the short story came from Europe, it was reborn in America and reached a pinnacle of superb form on these shores by the turn of the 20th century. In so many of our best writers, we hear echoes of a pioneer ethos that sustains the heart of a great literature. Here are 12 of America's best.

In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In "The Whale Tooth", a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathens" on Melanesia.

En 1897 viajó a Alaska, en plena fiebre del oro. De regreso a su ciudad natal, comenzó a escribir los relatos de sus viajes.

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.

Humphrey Van Weyden is a smart, domesticated man. He enjoys reading and critiquing literature in his free time. So when he finds himself a survivor of a ferryboat accident and at the complete mercy of a tyrannical schooner captain, his life is turned upside down. Exploring themes of ambition, courage, and survival, this 1904 classic adventure novel features an antagonist based on a sailor Jack London once knew.

Strong sled dogs were in demand, and that’s how Buck, the St. Bernard cross Scotch Shepherd ended up in the wilds of Alaska.

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".

"Created He Them" is a powerful story of redemption and forgiveness, a tale of two brothers who must face their demons in order to find peace and happiness.

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.

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.

Hunden Jerry er en irsk terrier, der vokser op i den britiske koloni Santa Isabel Island. Han bliver egentligt brugt til at jage sorte slaver på plantagerne, men i løbet af bogen kommer han vidt omkring. Vi følger ham på en lang og farlig sejlads, blandt Malaitaøens oprindelige befolkning og hans farefulde møde med troldmanden Agno. Jack London skrev senere en bog om Jerrys bror Michael og hans eventyr rundt om i verden. Bøgerne kan læses hver for sig eller i forlængelse af hinanden.

Skriet från vildmarken utgavs första gången 1903. Det är en berättelse om den stora och starka blandrashunden Buck. Han kidnappas från en trygg tillvaro på en gård, säljs och transporteras norrut till guldruschens Alaska. Ett hårt liv som slädhund väntar Buck. Han härdas av den tuffa tillvaron och med tiden väcks uråldriga instinkter till liv. Han drömmer om ett liv i vildmarken.

Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction.

Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies.

"When the World Was Young" introduces us to a thief named Dave Slotter, who intends to steal from James Ward - a famous and wealthy businessman. However, while Slotter walks through Ward’s property, he encounters a wild barbarian and is forced to fight for his life. Will Slotter escape from the wild man who wants to kill him? Who is the barbarian and what is he doing on Ward’s lands? Will the thief succeed in his plan? "Moon-Face" introduces us to John Claverhouse, a man who is unreasonably despised.

A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend - a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin.

Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors.