The novel of the famous American writer Jack London’s Moon Valley is the story of a young worker defeated by the iron fifth of an industrial octopus city and finding peace and joy in a life close to nature on a California ranch. This book describes historical events in America in the early twentieth century on the example of one family. The Great Depression has not yet begun, but tension is felt in the cities, clashes are taking place between the striking workers and strike...
The twelfth volume of the Complete Works by the prominent American writer Jack London includes the famous Tesman Turtles short story book. This book, written by the hand of a mature master, was the last work published during his lifetime. The stories included in the collection are characterized by a sharp, exciting plot, paradoxical, unexpected outcomes, and at the same time lyricism, understanding of life lived – all this for which millions of readers around the world love...
One of Jack London’s most beloved books is about the amazing adventures of the Irish Terrier Jerry. From birth, Jerry saw from his master only care and love. But once his life changed dramatically – Jerry was on an island inhabited by some natives. The natural mind, resourcefulness and courage helped the extraordinary dog to avoid many dangers and even find a friend in a hostile tribe of natives.
The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, he learned the law of the Wild at an early age: kill, or be killed, eat, or be eaten. Separated from his mother and traded from master to master, White Fang never grasped the concept of love, and violence was all that he knew. Having no...
Pochodząca ze zbioru Serce kobiety nowela Zamążpójście Lit-lit to opowieść o córce wodza plemienia, którą zapragnął pojąć za żonę szkocki kupiec, John Fox. Młoda dziewczyna, sprzedana przez swego ojca za parę koców i strzelbę, próbuje odnaleźć się w nowej dla siebie rzeczywistości, choć jednocześnie nie może uwolnić się od dawnego życia.Jack London (John Griffith Chaney) – autor powieści i opowiadań z wątkami autobiograficznymi. London miał niezwykle barwne życie. Samouk, był...
„Before Adam” is a striking story about our distant Neanderthal ancestors, who are just starting to become aware of themselves as people. According to the plot of the story, the protagonist has dreams in which he „watches a movie” about his adventures in prehistoric times in the person of the Big Tooth boy living with his mother in a nest in a big tree... The author tried to diversify the hero’s dreams with various adventures: problems with his mother, constantly changing h...
Zbiór krótkich nowel Jacka Londona to przepiękne, pełne fascynacji kobietami opowieści o wspaniałych przedstawicielkach płci na pewno pięknej i na pewno nie słabej. Przebija z kart tych opowiadań tęsknota autora za miłością, jego zauroczenie niezwykłymi charakterami mieszkanek Północy, które zmagać się tam musiały nie tylko z trudnymi charakterami mężczyzn – i białych, i czerwonoskórych, ale i ekstremalnymi warunkami przyrody. Przyrody pięknej, jednak stawiającej człowiekowi ...
Na podstawie klasycznej powieści Jacka Londona został realizowany film o tym samym tytule. Porywająca powieść przygodowa jednego z najpopularniejszych pisarzy amerykańskich Zew krwi to historia o dzielnym psie, który stanie przed wyborem między życiem w świecie człowieka a powrotem do natury Akcja powieści rozgrywa się na Alasce w czasach gorączki złota. Czteroletni pies Buck wiedzie szczęśliwe życie w domu sędziego Millera w Kalifornii. Jego beztroska kończy się w momencie, ...
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.
The storybook „On the Makaloa Mat” tells the story of the lives of natives and whites in the Hawaiian Islands. The story, which gave the name to this brilliant collection, is considered one of the best works about love in world literature. Each story has common features: firstly, they all describe some side of life in the Hawaiian Islands, and secondly, these are all the memories of old people, or people close to them in age, wise by experience. And, of course, the local fl...
”The Call of the Wild” is a touching novel about a great friendship between a dog and a human. The novel follows up the life of the dog Buck since he lived in sunny California all the way until the day he was kidnapped and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands a number of times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton who took care of him with great tenderness while not expecting anything in ...
“A Daughter of the Snows” 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.A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is als...
“The Iron Heel” 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 Iron Heel is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack London. The novel is told via the framing device of a manuscript found centuries after the action takes place and footnotes by a scholar, Anthony Meredith, circa 2600 AD. Jack London writes at two levels, sporadically having Meredith correc...
“The Sea-Wolf” 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 Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. It tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist — an intellectual man named Humphrey Van Weyden — forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Fran...
“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.
Tytułowy Biały Kieł to udomowiony wilk wiodący pełne trudów życie w surowych warunkach Ameryki Północnej przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Wzruszająca i pełna, nierzadko brutalnych, zwrotów akcji, historia wilka posiadającego psie korzenie pozwala przyjrzeć się światu z perspektywy zwierzęcia. Biały Kieł doświadcza dobra i zła, także w kontakcie z ludźmi – z jednym z nich udaje mu się zawrzeć niezwykłą więź. Utwór doczekał wielokrotnych adaptacji filmowych.
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...
Trzymająca w napięciu opowieść o brutalności świata i walce o sprawiedliwość. Meksyk, rok 1911. W kraju czuć zbliżającą się rewolucję. Wojskowi spiskują przeciwko dyktatorskim rządom prezydenta Porfifria Díaza. Dołącza do nich młody chłopak, o którym niewiele wiadomo. Widać jednak, że w całości oddany jest sprawie. Sam znajduje sposób, by zdobywać pieniądze potrzebne na wsparcie rewolucji. Jakie wydarzenie z jego życia sprawiło, że w oczach osiemnastolatka pojawiła się nienaw...