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This collection of letters conveys timeless tales of love and passion written by some of the most interesting male figures in history, including revolutionary thinkers, visionary painters, and enlightened writers. Even dark minds like Edgar Allan Poe experience love, and each letter reveals personal desires, intimate details, and intense emotions.

The themes of man's inhumanity to man, as well as man pitted against the violence of nature, are vividly exposed in this sampling of Jack London's short stories. The titles included in this collection are "Love of Life", "Batard", "The House of Mapuhi", and "Mauki".

Jack London’s Call of the Wild is a beautiful tale of Buck, a house dog torn from the comforts of hearth and home in sunny California and thrust into the unforgiving wild. Through Buck, London takes us on a journey where the shackles of civilization are left behind, leading us to a simultaneously unknown and familiar past. Forgotten senses are awakened and survival is key. The story awakens in us something primal - the desire to be truly free.

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.

Buck est un chien de compagnie qui vit une paisible existence chez son maître. Tout bascule lorsqu'il est enlevé puis vendu à un maître de chiens de traîneau qui l'emmène dans le grand Nord. Il doit alors apprendre à se battre contre le froid et contre les autres, pour imposer sa place dans la meute. Peu à peu, ses instincts naturels refont surface et Buck devient ce qu'il a toujours été sans le savoir : un animal sauvage qui ne cherche pas la compagnie des hommes.

To Build a Fire is regarded by many as an American classic, one of London's most highly regarded works. We never know the name of the protagonist as he makes his way towards his destination, trekking across the Yukon at 70° below zero. Nature is unforgiving to those who challenge her.

"König Alkohol" ist ein autobiographischer Roman, aber auch eine schonungslose Abrechnung. Ein Klassiker der Suchtliteratur. Ideal für Männer, die den täglichen Umgang mit dem Alkohol gewöhnt sind!

This collection of 19 classic horror tales includes "The Brazilian Cat", by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Paul Panting; "Eveline's Visitant" by Mary E. Braddon, read by Hayward Morse; "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London, read by Garrick Hagon; "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce, read by Garrick Hagon; "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson, read by Sean Barrett; and many more.

Erzählungen weltberühmter Autoren über die schönen Seiten des Lebens: Tee, Kaffee, Wein, Schokolade, das Telefonieren und sogar über das Heiraten...

In this classic American adventure, Jack London explores the laws of civilization and wilderness - and the pull of instinct - through the eyes of Buck, a half Saint Bernard, half Scottish shepherd. London drew on his own experiences as a prospector in the Canadian wilderness, as well as the philosophies of Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, for this enduring tale of survival.

Most readers are familiar with Jack London's stories of the frozen northland, such as White Fang and To Light a Fire, but many critics feel he should be equally acknowledged for his fascinating stories of the South Pacific. Here is another remote corner of the world, a background for his magnificently colorful and entertaining Tales of the South Pacific.

Jack London is among the greatest adventure writers in American Literature, and The Call of the Wild is his masterpiece, a work that takes us where few tales have dared: into the mind of an animal. Buck is taken from the warmth of the Santa Clara valley to work as a sled-dog in the frozen Yukon during the Gold Rush. There he is forced to lose his domesticated ways and rediscover his natural instincts.

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.

In letzter Sekunde wird Humphrey nach einem Schiffsunglück aus dem eiskalten Wasser gerettet. Doch statt ihn an Land zu bringen, behandelt ihn der Kapitän wie einen Gefangenen: Humphrey muss auf dem Robbenfänger harte Arbeit verrichten. Der "Seewolf", wie Kapitän Larsen genannt wird, macht seiner Mannschaft das Leben zur Hölle.

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

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.

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.

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".

Jack London's tales of man's struggle against the forces of nature are universally popular. Best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, London was also a prolific writer of short stories. This collection brings together four of his finest, all depicting the harshness of life in the frozen arctic wastes.

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?