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Ambientato nella regione canadese dello Yukon sul finire dell Ottocento, il romanzo racconta la storia di un lupo nelle cui vene scorre anche sangue di cane...

"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes - which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

Tales of the frozen North and the men and women who dared to challenge it, by the author of The Call of the Wild.

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: "The Whale Tooth", "To Build a Fire", "The House of Pride", and "The House of Mapuhi".

The House of Pride, written by iconic American author Jack London (1876-1916), was first published in December 1910 issue of The Pacific Monthly. Author Jack London wrote The Call of the Wild and many other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commerical magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.

"Quando io e voi, addormentati o assopiti, cadiamo attraverso lo spazio e torniamo in noi con una sensazione di batticuore, proprio nell'attimo immediatamente prima di fracassarci le ossa al suolo, non facciamo che ricordarci di quel che avvenne ai nostri antenati arboricoli e che si è impresso, per le successive modificazioni cerebrali, nell'eredità della specie."

This story recounts the legend of Keesh, an Eskimo boy who used "brains not brawn" to defeat a powerful polar bear and save his people from starvation.

London was a man of adventure, a man of action, with a dynamic and challenging credo as this. And only he, with his great physical strength, his intense intellect, and his turbulent spirit, could have successfully lived up to it. "The House of Maphui" reflects all this.

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. Stories included are: "The white Silence," "The Son of the Wolf," "The Men of Forty Mile," "In a Far Country," "To the Man on Trail," "The Priestly Perogative," "The Wisdom of the Trail," "The Wife of the King.""An Odyssey of the North."

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In "The Whale Tooth", a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathens" on Melanesia.

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf and many other wonderful stories. The Children of the Frost is unique among his works in that it features the tragedies, travails and triumphs of the native Indians of the frozen Northland.

Diable - A Dog, first appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine June, 1902. Unlike Buck in The Call of the Wild, this fiercely independent dog was anything but man's best friend. Most thought he was a devil but, as the story says his master Black Leclère was also a devil, "and the twain were well matched."

Joe Fleming, a youth of twenty, earning his livelihood as a sailmaker and supporting his mother and sisters by his trade, augments his income by prize-fighting before so-called sporting clubs. On the eve of his marriage to Genevieve, an employe' in the Silversteins' candy shop, Joe is to fight his last bout before a club, having promised Genevieve to give up "the game," which, while it seems wrong to her, is to him a clean and manly as well as lucrative occupation.

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

Los trineos dejaban oír su eterna queja, a la que se mezclaba el chirrear de los arneses y el tintineo de las campanillas de los perros que iban a la cabeza. Pero los hombres y los animales, rendidos de fatiga, guardaban silencio. Una capa de nieve reciente dificultaba la marcha sobre la pista. Estaban ya muy lejos del punto de partida. Los perros arrastrando una carga excesiva de ancas de alce congelada, dura como el pedernal, se apalancaban con todas sus fuerzas en la blanda superficie de la nieve con una terquedad casi humana

Listen to Burning Daylight with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was his 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 story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith.

What was that amazing otherworldly sound? Bassett, a specimen hunting naturalist, is overwhelmed and obsessed with finding its source. Into the jungle of Guadalcanal he plunges, undeterred by fierce cannibals, headhunters, deadly tropical diseases, and a romantic savage. Relentlessly onward he fights his way, until many weeks later, sick and dying, he finally comes face to face with, and learns the incredible secret of, The Red One.

Un lupo che per amore arriva a farsi cane.

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.