JACK LONDON

From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, t...

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed ""Burning Daylight"" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The stor...

         ""Old longings nomadic leap,           Chafing at custom's chain;           Again from its brumal sleep           Wakens the ferine strain."" Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound ...

Este ebook presenta La llamada de la selva (Edición completa), con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La llamada de la selva o La llamada de lo salvaje, y El llamado de la selva es un libro del escritor estadounidense Jack London. El argumento trata de un perro llamado Buck cuyos instintos primitivos vuelven tras una serie de sucesos que le ocurre...

Extrait : Toute cette histoire remonte à un jour d’élections. Par un brûlant après-midi californien, j’étais descendu à cheval dans la Vallée de la Lune, de mon ranch au petit village, pour voter toute une série de réformes qu’on voulait apporter à la constitution de l’État de Californie. Il faisait si chaud que j’avais bu plusieurs verres avant...

Extrait : Alors qu’ils descendaient le long de la berge en boitant douloureusement, l’homme qui marchait le premier chancela soudain parmi les rochers. Tous deux étaient fatigués et faibles ; leurs visages contractés avaient cette expression de patience que donnent les privations longtemps endurées. Ils étaient lourdement chargés de couvertures ...

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