Showing results for "Jack London" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

"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.

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Step into the harrowing world of Darrell Standing, a university professor sentenced to life in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Through the lens of his first-person narrative, we explore his battle against the prisons cruel torture device known as the jacket—a tightly laced canvas garment that constricts the body, inducing unbearable pain. In an astonishing twist, Standing learns to transcend this torment by entering a trance-like state, where he traverses the cosmos and relives fragments of his past lives. The jacket, a real instrument of suffering at San Quentin, inspired Jack Londons ...

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Burning Daylight takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, Elam Harnish, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. Bringing his fortunes to the States he is cheated out of it by a crowd of money kings, and recovers it only at the muzzle of his gun. Embarking on a new life in California, he makes another fortune by underhanded means . . . only to find his corrupt life suddenly turned around by the love of a woman.

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Burning Daylight takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, Elam Harnish, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. Bringing his fortunes to the States he is cheated out of it by a crowd of money kings, and recovers it only at the muzzle of his gun. Embarking on a new life in California, he makes another fortune by underhanded means . . . only to find his corrupt life suddenly turned around by the love of a woman.

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London 2027. Terrorists deploy a highly sophisticated nerve agent called London Black at Waterloo station—for an unfortunate section of the population, what follows is agonising physical deterioration and usually death London 2029. DI Lucy Stone is called in to investigate the gruesome murder of the scientist who developed an antidote to the nerve agent. It is a daily boost, making life bearable for the 'Vulnerables'—but isn't a cure. Lucy suspects the scientist might have been working on a permanent solution to the nerve agent. 

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...

Ein terroristischer Anschlag, ein Nervengift und kein Gegenmittel. Terroristische Anschläge mit dem Nervengift London Black haben die Menschen in Angst versetzt. 90% der Bevölkerung hat zwar überlebt. Für die anderen 10%, die "Vulnerablen", beginnt jedoch ein qualvolles Ringen mit dem Tod. Zwei Jahre später wird der Forscher Flinders Cox, der offenbar an einem Heilmittel gearbeitet hat, ermordet. DI Lucy Stone nimmt sich des Falles an. Sie selbst ist eine der Vulnerablen und von den Ereignissen stark traumatisiert.

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.

Questo breve romanzo, pubblicato nel 1903, e considerato uno dei più famosi di Jack London, è stato per molto tempo catalogo come letteratura per ragazzi. Ma l'ambientazione nello Yukon, durante la caccia all'oro, la vita brutale e di violenza scatenata dalla cupidigia che caratterizzò quel periodo può servire solo come monito ed esempio negativo.

Venduto ai cercatori d'oro che lo mettono al traino delle slitte, Buck impara presto a sopravvivere alle fredde notti e alla legge primitiva e violenta degli uomini. Sullo sfondo dei ghiacciai del Klondike, Buck si lancia in imprese memorabili e, tra fatiche impervie e nuovi legami, si risveglia irrefrenabile in lui un istinto atavico che lo spinge verso la foresta, lo spazio aperto e selvaggio.

Le straordinarie imprese del cane Buck, strappato da un'esistenza serena, per essere usato come cane da slitta durante la caccia all'oro.The extraordinary undertakings of the dog Buck, snatched from serene existence, to be used as a sled dog during the hunt for gold.

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.

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.

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.