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Tra la famiglia che l'ha trovato, debole e macilento, l'ha rifocillato e guarito, e l'antico padrone che ricompare improvvisamente alla porta, Brown Wolf chi deciderà di seguire?Un racconto tra i più celebri di Jack London.Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta "C'erano una volta un cane e un gatto".

Le straordinarie imprese del cane Buck, strappato da un'esistenza serena, per essere usato come cane da slitta durante la caccia all'oro.The extraordinary undertakings of the dog Buck, snatched from serene existence, to be used as a sled dog during the hunt for gold.

Jack London’s masterpiece describing the timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness Buck, half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is a bold-spirited dog living the good life in the Santa Clara Valley. But when a treacherous act of betrayal results in his kidnapping, he is stripped from...

Experience Jack London’s timeless adventure classic The Call of the Wild, a powerful story of survival, instinct, and transformation in the frozen Yukon wilderness. Following Buck’s journey from domesticated dog to fierce creature of the wild, this gripping tale explores loyalty, endurance...

Sullo sfondo selvaggio e implacabile del Grande Nord, tra foreste silenziose, distese di neve e cieli taglienti, Buck — un cane cresciuto nel comfort della civiltà — viene strappato alla sua vita tranquilla e catapultato nel mondo brutale della corsa all'oro. Tra slitte, gelo e lotta quotidiana per la sopravvivenza, impara le leggi primordiali della natura e riscopre, passo dopo passo, l'istinto ancestrale che dorme nel suo sangue.

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Anton Checov a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato gli animali domestici che da più tempo vivono insieme a noi. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani e i gatti sono protagonisti di pagine memorabili. Questa antologia spazia tra i generi più diversi e provoca in chi legge una gamma di emozioni sorprendentemente vasta perché una cosa è certa: i nostri amici a quattro zampe non ci deludono mai tantomeno in letteratura.

With plague and violence stalking the streets and a new Cold War brewing in the East, America has never been more unprepared to face her enemies. There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling. When CIA assassin Jason Trapp is called to the Middle East to identify a man suspected to be feared ISIS terrorist Khaled al-Shakiri, he expects to be in and out in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas. After surviving the most violent prison break the region has ever seen, Trapp is left chasing shadows.

The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. In this audio version of his classic book The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, Jack Hawley makes its wisdom clear to Western seekers.

In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets: enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centres.

Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited - not only by warring alien cultures but by human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off the planet to warn Earth of Tschai's deadly existence.

Un lupo che per amore arriva a farsi cane.

Meditations to Activate Your Capacity for Healing Meditation brings you into a deep communion with your own body and heart, but what happens when you are sick or in pain? With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical...

«Nell'occhio della gallina è custodita la verità del mondo. La gallina non pensa, sa. Doveva arrivare il romanzo sulla migliore e piú derisa amica dell'uomo». (Niccolò Ammaniti) «Le colombe di Mercè Rodoreda, i pavoni di Flannery O' Connor e le galline di Jackie Polzin, tutti volatili letterari che sanno raccontare le donne, i loro pensieri intimi e le loro assurdità. Un romanzo che sotto l'ironia e la lingua ben misurata cova speranze e perdite, un universo umano sodo e compatto». (Giulia Caminito)

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century—and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Captain John “Black Jack” Geary’s exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic “last stand” in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance Fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.

"He travels fastest who travels alone...but not after the frost has dropped below zero 50 degrees or more." (Yukon Code) Jack London’s best short story.

Romanzo breve post-apocalittico, fu pubblicato nel 1912, anticipa tutto il filone dei romanzi fantasy post-catastrofi, così diffusi in seguito sia in letteratura che nella filmografia. La peste rossa, che colpisce la terra nel 2013, viene raccontata da un sopravvissuto 60 anni dopo, a una nuova generazione semi-barbara.

This a classic adventure story by Jack London written in 1903 focused on a dog named Buck. This is a must-listen for audiences of all ages. You won't find a more affordable and well-engineered version of this timeless classic. Experience the gripping tale with clear, crisp, handcrafted audio. We use a variety of technological methods to dynamically level and smooth out the audio, making it a wonderful experience.

The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the...

A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to live A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial Times Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Hu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he...

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.