Jack London
3) Croc-Blanc
Croc-Blanc (1906) est un roman de l'écrivain américain Jack London. Le titre original est White Fang.
L'histoire commence avant la naissance de Croc-Blanc, un chien loup. Le roman suit la meute d'où il vient et ses premières semaines de vie sauvage, sa lutte pour la vie; manger ou être mangé.
4) The Game
On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.
...6) Lost Face
Un des chefs d'oeuvre de Jack London, un grand classique de la littérature de jeunesse.
Buck, un croisé de terre-neuve et de colley âgé de 4 ans et demi et pesant 70 kg, appartient à un magistrat de la vallée de Santa Clara (Haute-Californie). Loin d'avoir une «vie de chien», Buck coule une existence heureuse dans la famille du juge Miller. Mais tout bascule le jour où, victime de la traîtrise d'un homme, il se retrouve
Esta historia tiene como protagonista a un perro llamado Buck que en el otoño de 1894, cuando el descubrimiento de los yacimientos auríferos de Klondike arrastra hacia los hielos de Alaska a hombres de todas partes del globo, Buck es productivamente vendido y enviado al Norte. Sin ser ya acariciado ni respetado, en un país salvaje y hostil, se ve obligado a doblegarse a la ley primitiva del bastón y el látigo,
12) Colmillo Blanco
13) The Faith of Men
Though best known for the novel The Call of the Wild, American author and activist Jack London was also a prolific short story writer. The Faith of Men is a tale packed with twists and turns that follows two wealthy friends as they navigate the challenges of love, life, and the great outdoors.
14) The Night-Born
15) A Son of the Sun
A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London
...18) The Road
Martin Eden tells about a proletarian young autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manuscript, "there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning
...The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book, and it is generally considered his best,
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