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Spot was a good-looking dog and everyone in the Klondike wanted the canine - except the two men that owned him. They tried selling him, they tried leaving him behind, and Spot seemed content to keep them guessing how he was always able to find them. Adventure, humor, and a good dose of owner frustration populate this story from famed writer Jack London.

Jack London was an American novelist and journalist who is considered the world’s first literary celebrity. Looking at The Story of Keesh, published in 1904, it is clear how London could have achieved such prominence. The Story of Keesh is a simple yet compelling short moral fable about the eponymous Keesh, an outcast of an Inuit tribe, and his quest to honor his late father’s legacy by providing the condemnatory but starving tribe with meat.

Jack London (1876-1916) wrote extensively of the Klondike Gold Rush. This is the story of Kink Mitchell and Hootchinoo Bill who came to the Yukon in 1896. The claim called 24 Eldorado finally brought a huge surprise for them and for Ans Handerson.

Welcome to the world of a lone prospector who simply wants a place to all his own and look for the 'yellow dirt'. Jack London's word pictures draw you to this place of beauty and deception. The miner's character endears you to this slightly eccentric man. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

The story of The Scarlet Plague takes place in 2073 in the San Francisco area, 60 years after an apocalyptic pandemic called the Red Death or Scarlet Plague has depopulated the Earth. James Smith, one of the survivors, lives with his grandsons who are hunter-gatherers in a tribal world. He relates the horror of the plague to them, and tells them of the time when he was a professor of English, and of the start of the pandemic. His grandsons, who are of limited cognitive ability, refuse to believe him; they cannot believe that the disease was spread by germs.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular and enduring work. Set in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, it tells the story of the magnificent dog Buck, who is a loyal family pet until cruel men steal him and make him a pawn in their feverish search for the gold of the Klondike. Brutally beaten into serving as a sled dog, Buck finds the blood of his wolf ancestors rising within him.

Kidnapped from his safe California home. Thrown into a life-death struggle in the frozen Arctic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half Shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the lash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thorton: the power of love and loyalty. Yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him. Can Buck resist the lure of the wolves?

The Call of the Wild by Jack London was perhaps his best selling book. Buck the dog, a St. Bernard Shepherd mix was living a comfortable life in the Santa Clara Valley of California until the demand for dogs of his type in the Klondike encourages the caretaker to steal him and sell him into a life of misery in the far North. his physical strength, and his strength of character allow him to survive the brutal treatment he receives at the hand of man. The longer he is in the North, the closer he comes to his brother Wolf until the call of the wild transforms him into a wild animal, a Wolf.

The Call of the Wild takes the listener on an epic adventure during the Klondike Gold Rush during the 1890s. Buck, a four-year-old St. Bernard and Scotch sheppard crossbreed, is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. Then he is kidnapped and shipped to the cold bleakness of the Arctic to work with Klondike gold miners. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey that tells the tale of his unbreakable spirit.

Born in the Yukon, White Fang is a Wolf, or mostly Wolf - his father was a Wolf, his mother was half dog, but for all intents and purposes it was a Wolf. He looked like Wolf, fought like a Wolf, and thought like a Wolf. Early in his cubhood he was captured by an Indian, and raised as a sled dog, the Wolf nearly beaten out of him, but not quite. Subjected to human brutality and a very little human kindness he becomes a deadly fighter until rescued by a wise and kindly man. A heartwarming story.

Jack Londons zu Lebzeiten erfolgreichstes Buch über den Goldrausch in Alaska: Der Protagonist mit dem vielversprechenden Spitznamen Burning Daylight ist unter seinen Goldgräberkollegen im Yukon Territory in Kanada wegen seiner Ausdauer und Stärke, aber nicht zuletzt auch aufgrund seiner Kameradschaft bekannt. Doch dann macht Burning Daylight das große Geld, und aus dem großzügigen Kameraden wird ein ehrgeiziger Geschäftsmann. Aber erliegt er wirklich für immer dem Lockruf des Goldes?

Ein Klassiker der literarischen Seestücke von Jack London: Der schöngeistige Humphrey van Weyden wird, nachdem er vor der kalifornischen Küste Schiffbruch erlitten hat, von dem Robbenfänger "Ghost" gerettet. Doch an Bord muss er sich mit Kapitän Wolf Larsen auseinandersetzen, der seine Mannschaft mit einem brutalen Spiel um Macht und Herrschaft tyrannisiert. Trotz aller Unterschiede finden die beiden ungleichen Männer ineinander echte Gesprächspartner, bis dieses ambivalente Verhältnis jedoch auf eine extreme Probe gestellt wird.

Ein Hörbuch, der im hohen Norden der USA im 19. Jahrhundert zur Zeit des Goldrausches spielt: Naass, ein indigener Stammesführer der Aleuten in Alaska will die junge Unga heiraten, doch in der Nacht vor der Hochzeit wird sie von dem Weißen Axel Gunderson entführt. Aber Naass gibt so schnell nicht auf und sucht über Jahre nach seiner gestohlenen Braut... Eine Geschichte, die weit mehr als nur ein Abenteuerroman ist.

Jeder backt mal kleine Brötchen - auch Jack London fing als Verfasser von Groschenromanen an. Zwei seiner früheren Erzählungen sind in diesem Hörbuch zu finden. Western-Heros live forever. Peng Peng: "Das Gesetz des Lebens" und "Der Sohn des Wolfes".

Diese abenteuerliche Goldgräbergeschichte stammt aus der Feder eines erzählerischen Naturtalents, das so ganz aus dem eigenen abenteuerlichen Leben schöpfte. Eine fesselnde und zugleich nachdenklich stimmende Geschichte.

Humphrey van Weyden, ein Mittedreißiger, "der sich nicht ganz ohne Erfolg als Kunstbetrachter in der Literatur versucht hatte", wird nach einem Schiffsunglück in der Bucht von San Francisco von dem Robbenfänger "Ghost" aufgefischt. Doch anstatt ihn im nächsten Hafen an Land zu setzen, macht Kapitän Wolf Larsen den Literaten zum Küchenjungen, denn für ihn gilt allein das brutale Recht des Stärkeren. Und Wolf Larsen ist der Stärkste.

An eclectic selection of short story classics by great writers of latter day such as Jack London, O' Henry, M.R. James, G.K. Chesterton, James Joyce and Anton Chekhov.

A collection of four short stories by renowned storyteller Jack London including “The Scarlett Plague” and “An Odyssey of the North”.

"El diente de ballena" es un cuento de Jack London. Sigue el desgarrador viaje de un hombre llamado Clay quien, en busca de un valioso diente de ballena, enfrenta condiciones traicioneras y una batalla contra la naturaleza en el Ártico.

Included: The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe, Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone, Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte, The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frog by Edgar Allan Poe, The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare.