The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

London, Jack

Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Colección LONGMAN, Número 0
Fecha de edición abril 2006 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780140186512
416 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas
Dimensiones 196 mm x 129 mm


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Resumen del libro

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog.

White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog struggling to survive in a human society every bit as violent as the natural world. This volume of Jack London's famed stories of the North also includes 'Batard', in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner; and 'Love of Life', in which an injured prospector, abandoned by his partner, must struggle home alone through the wilderness, stalked by a lone wolf. In his introduction, James Dickey probes London's strong personal and literary identification with the wolf-dog as a symbol and totem.

Andrew Sinclair, London's official biographer and the volume's editor, provides a brief account of London's life as a sailor, desperado, socialist, adventurer and acclaimed author. Jack London (1876-1916) was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, California. By the age of sixteen he had left school, worked in a canning factory, spent time as an oyster pirate and been a member of the Fish Patrol in the San Francisco Bay.

In 1893 he joined a sealing cruise, which took him as far abroad as Japan. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike river in north-west Canada, which became the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). If you enjoyed The Call of the Wild, you might like Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, also available in Penguin Classics.

Biografía del autor

Javier Calvo nació en Barcelona, en 1973. Es novelista y traductor literario. Considerado uno de los mejores traductores literarios del inglés, ha traducido obras de autores como David Foster Wallace, J. M. Coetzee, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Peter Matthiessen y Denis Johnson. Entre sus novelas destacan Mundo maravilloso (finalista del Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara 2008), Corona de flores (Premio Memorial Silverio Cañada de la Semana Negra de Gijón 2011), El jardín colgante (Premio Biblioteca Breve 2012) y Piel de plata (2019), entre su narrativa breve, Los ríos perdidos de Londres (2005) y Suomenlinna (2010) y el ensayo El fantasma en el libro (Seix Barral, 2016). Su trayectoria literaria lo ha consolidado como uno de los narradores que de forma más rotunda ha añadido una nueva dimensión a nuestra narrativa (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia). Su obra se ha traducido al inglés, al francés, al alemán y al italiano.





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