Böcker av Jack London

Part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, Buck is a sturdy crossbreed canine accustomed to a comfortable life as a family dog -- until he's seized from his pampered surroundings and shipped to Alaska to be a sled dog. There, the forbidding landscape is as harsh as life itself during the gold rush of the 1890s. Forced to function in a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival, Buck adapts quickly. Traces of his earlier existence are obliterated and he reverts to his dormant primeval instincts, encountering danger and adventure as he becomes the leader of a wolf pack and undertakes a journey of nearly mythical proportions. Superb details, taken from Jack London's firsthand knowledge of Alaskan frontier life, make this classic tale of endurance as gripping today as it was over a century ago. One of literature's most popular and exciting adventure stories, The Call of the Wild will enrich the reading experience of youngsters, and rekindle fond memories of a favorite among older generations.

One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of adventure vividly capture the struggle to survive against the forces of nature by both men and animals, and often their retreat to a primitive state in the face of death. While these tales brought him the most fame, London also wrote stories that showed his insight into the lives of people who worked at sea, and they areas wonderful as any of his work. The stories in this collection show the wide range of Jack London's storytelling talents, and they continue to thrill readers today just as they have for generations.

Teaterstycken är tre teaterpjäser samlade i en bok. Kvinnofejd, Stöld och Ollonodlaren heter pjäserna som skrevs mellan 1910-1916.I originalöversättning av Ernst LundquistJack London (1876-1916) var en mycket produktiv amerikansk författare som under sin livstid skrev 49 romaner och flertalet noveller. London använde sig oftast av två teman i sitt skrivande: samhällskritiken och vildmarken. Bland hans mest kända verk finns Skriet från vildmarken, Varghunden och Varg-Larsen.

Before Adam is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventure novel, this one revolves around the dreams of a young boy, dreams that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth living in prehistoric times. "These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the sea and achieve our first adventure on land."

Jack London: Mondgesicht. Seltsame Geschichten»Moon-Face and Other Stories« Erstdruck dieser Zusammenstellung: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1906. Hier in der Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus, Berlin, Universitas, 1928.Inhaltsverzeichnis:Mondgesicht.Die Geschichte vom Leopardenmann.Lokalkolorit.Amateurabend.Die Lieblinge des Midas.Der Schatten und das Funkeln.Die Goldschlucht.Die Planchette.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2022.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

Jack London: Die eiserne Ferse. Ein dystopischer Roman»The Iron Heel«, 1908. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus, Berlin, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1927 mit einer Einführung von Anatole France.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2022.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Bearbeiteter Umschlag der Ausgabe von 1908.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

Jack London: Die Zwangsjacke. Ein fantastischer Roman»The Star Rover«, 1915, auch als »The Jacket« verlegt. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus, Berlin, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1930.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2022.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Bearbeiteter Umschlag der Erstausgabe 1915.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

The book, "" The Faith of Men "" , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Jack London: Die Zwangsjacke. Ein fantastischer Roman»The Star Rover«, 1915, auch als »The Jacket« verlegt. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus, Berlin, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1930.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2022.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Bearbeiteter Umschlag der Erstausgabe 1915.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

''Wild'' is the Call of the Wild, Jack London''s seminal classic of a domestic dog that gets caught up in the Gold Rush of man''s avarice and quest for adventure in the early 20th Century, and in the process is transformed into something more than his primitive self...''White'' is White Fang, the author''s follow-up novel in which the process is reversed, and the benefits of civilisation are discovered by a wolf...''Wild & White'' is the cold, harsh and unforgiving landscape of the North, against which man and beast act out these dramas of adventure, survival and self-discovery.This volume contains not only the full, unexpurgated text of the two classic novels, but fifteen other stories which expand upon London''s vision of the North American wilderness as metaphor and symbol for the struggles faced within and by our Nature.For this epic, definitive collection, editor Wulfric Thorsson provides a unique commentary from the perspective of the Mythologist, setting the stories within a context of mythic meaning, lycanthropy and personal becoming.