Las Travesuras de Tomás y otros cuentos

La llamada de lo salvaje es una novela corta del escritor estadounidense Jack London, que trata sobre un perro llamado Buck, cuyos instintos primitivos vuelven tras una serie de sucesos que le ocurren cuando lo ponen a tirar de un trineo en el Yukón, durante la fiebre del oro que tuvo lugar en el siglo XIX en el Klondike, cuando los perros de tiro se compraban a precios elevados. Publicado en 1903, es el libro más leído de Jack London y se le considera normalmente la obra maestra de su “período de juventud”.

A girl likes a boy, but the boy doesn t seem to know she exists. What to do? Her friends give her some advice: remove your pigtails, your glasses, your costume wings, your bird hat, and try to be talkative. The boy finally pays attention to her, but after removing so many things, even the birds are gone from her head. The girl realizes that she is no longer herself, so decides to get back everything that makes her, her."

Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation. His name, which means "Old Dog," was given to him by the plantation master because, like the bloodhounds that chased fugitive slaves, Perro Viejo is always searching for the scent of his long lost mother. The only thing that keeps him alive is the memory of Asuncion, a beautiful girl he once met while washing his master's horses at a river. Never to see her again, he closes his heart to all forms of love. Nearing the end of his life, Perro Viejo meets Beira, an old...

Dieciseis divertidos relatos de distintas partes del mundo que nos descubren que todos los pueblos tienen sus pícaros: una liebre, un zorro, una araña o un hombre... todos son "encantadores y peligrosos, reyes del timo y caballeros de la gracia"; todos están dispuestos a mentir, fabular y bromear. Así que si sigues leyendo, ten cuidado con los pícaros de este mundo.