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Buck, un imponente perro secuestrado en plena fiebre del oro, demuestra con la devoción hacia el amo que los perros pueden ser más humanos que el hombre. Pero, muerto este, seguirá la llamada del instinto, de la naturaleza ancestral y salvaje, para unirse a sus hermanos lobos.

The War Collection: Essential Battlefield Classics is a collection of 14 works of fiction, philosophy, military strategy, and epic poetry, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are novels from Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque; military strategy from Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz; philosophy from Freud, and epic poetry from Homer, amongst much more.

Si te gustan las historias de supervivencia, aventura y naturaleza, La llamada de lo salvaje para estudiantes de español es para ti. Esta no es una edición cualquiera: está adaptada para estudiantes de español nivel A2, para que disfrutes de la historia mientras mejoras tu comprensión del idioma. Escrita por Jack London en 1903, esta novela sigue la increíble transformación de Buck, un perro doméstico que es arrancado de su hogar y llevado a las duras tierras de Alaska durante la fiebre del oro. Allí, deberá encontrar su instinto más primitivo y luchar por sobrevivir. Jack London...

London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

Presented here are two of Jack London's most popular adventure stories of canine survival and hardship in the frozen north: the literary classics "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."

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.

Masterpieces of American Literature is a curated collection of twelve iconic novels and stories that highlight the rich diversity and depth of American writing. Featuring illustrated editions of classics like Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Ayn Rand's Anthem, and H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, this anthology spans genres from romanticism and realism to modernism and early science fiction, showcasing the breadth of American literary tradition.

Jack London’s semi-autobiographical novel, Martin Eden, follows a working-class sailor working feverishly to become a successful writer, while struggling with his love for a society girl.

An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories, including "The Tale-Tell Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "The Hand", "Was it a Dream?", and "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; "Moon-Face" by Jack London; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, was the first example of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, 60 years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013. One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias “Granser”, tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death.

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.

The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man.

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Llamada de la Selva de Jack London, que narra la historia de un perro llamado Buck, nacido del cruce de un San Bernardo con una perra escocesa de pastor. Su existencia ha transcurrido en las tibias tierras del Sur como dueño indiscutible de la granja del juez Miller. Pero, su plácida vida doméstica da un giro inesperado, al ser robado por uno de los empleados de la granja y vendido a unos traficantes.

Humphrey van Weyden es un joven intelectual e idealista que, tras naufragar a bordo de un ferry en aguas del pacífico, es rescatado por un barco dedicado a la caza de focas, capitaneado por Wolf Larsen, el prototipo del "lobo de mar", cruel, despiadado y sin escrúpulos. Brutal y cínico, pero también muy inteligente. Un autodidacta que gobierna su barco y aterroriza a la tripulación con sus puños de acero.

Set in a not-so-distant future USA, a socialist mass movement is growing fast and strong enough to win the national elections, rise to power, and implement a radical socialist regime. Conservatives, feeling threatened and deeply alarmed, set out to seize power in order to avert it, establishing a brutal dictatorship.

This audiobook is a collection of stories by Jack London featuring the fictional characters of Christopher "Smoke" Bellew and his partner Shorty as they share adventures in the Yukon during the gold rush of the late 1880s. Jack London published this collection in 1912. London's main character, Smoke, is widely considered to be somewhat autobiographical in nature, perhaps an idealized version of how Jack London envisioned his own real-life exploits when he traveled to the Yukon at the height of the gold rush in 1897.

Through a masterful combination of social commentary, investigative journalism, and autobiographical work, in The People of the Abyss, Jack London chronicles the living conditions and hardships endured by the impoverished residents in the East End of London, England, during the late 19th century.

Half wolf, half dog, White Fang fully understands the cruelty of both nature and humans. After nearly starving to death during the frigid Arctic winter, he's taken in first by a man who "trains" him through constant whippings, and then by another who forces him to participate in vicious dogfights. Follow White Fang as he overcomes these obstacles and finally meets someone who offers him kindness and love. Retold from the Jack London original by Kathleen Olmstead.

John Barleycorn is a novel about the enjoyment of drinking and the struggles of alcoholism.

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".