“White Fang” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.White Fang is the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. 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...
“The Abysmal Brute” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Abysmal Brute is a novel by American writer Jack London. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette.In the story, a man who was brought up in a log cabin, and who is a newcomer to society, finds success as a boxer and recognizes corrupt practices in professional boxing....
“Dutch Courage & Other Stories” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.Dutch Courage & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of eleven moving and thrilling stories such as: Dutch Courage, The Lost Poacher, The Banks of the Sacramento or Bald-face.
“The House of Pride” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The House of Pride is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of seven moving and thrilling stories such as: The House of Pride, Good-bye, Jack or The Sheriff of Kona.
The novel „Adventure” in an acute, exciting form tells about the life of American and European settlers on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are no less pathos than villains who are so colorful in their villainy that they set their teeth together. Jack London, in the preface, writes that this book came out of the movie script. And truly, it is full of adventure, changing locations, colorful descriptions of snow-white beaches.
Son of the sun – a cycle of stories. The heroes of which are honest, persistent and courageous people, romantics, adventurers who have passed through difficult physical and moral tests in their lives. Griffiths and Jacobsen decided to trick Vulture into fleeing without paying the bills. But it would be better if they did not try to deceive the Son of the Sun.
Niezwykła historia rozgrywająca się w Jukon w Kanadzie podczas tak zwanej Gorączki Złota. Głównym bohaterem opowieści jest pies o imieniu Buck, mieszaniec bernardyna i owczarka szkockiego. Wszystko rozpoczyna się na ranczu w Santa Clara Valley w Kalifornii, kiedy Buck zostaje wykradziony ze swojego domu i sprzedany jako pies zaprzęgowy na Alaskę. W surowym środowisku staje się coraz bardziej dziki, jest zmuszony do walki o przetrwanie i dominację nad innymi psami. Na swojej d...
Zbiór znakomitych opowiadań sławnego amerykańskiego pisarza ukazujących piękno nie tylko ciała, ale także dusz i serc kobiet dalekiej mroźnej północy, a wszystkie opisane tu przygody czy zdarzenia za tło mają wspaniała, chociaż surową Alaskę z jej niezapomnianymi krajobrazami, z jej przyrodą. Zbiór zawiera osiem opowiadań, są to: Serce Kobiety, Keesh, syn Keesha, Żona z plemienia Siwash, Zamążpójście Lit-Lit, Śród lasów Północy, Historia Jees Uck, Przemyślny Porportuk, Negore...
