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Jack London Collection
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Jack London Collection

[The Complete Works with Illustrated & Annotated]
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This Excellent Collection brings together Jack London's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jack London's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

His most famous works include "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé "The People of the Abyss", "War of the Classes", and "Before Adam".



This Collection included:
A Daughter of the Snows
The Call of the Wild
The Sea-Wolf
The Game
White Fang
The Iron Heel
Martin Eden
Burning Daylight
Adventure
The Scarlet Plague
A Son of the Sun
The Valley of the Moon
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
The Little Lady of the Big House
Jerry of the Islands
Michael, Brother of Jerry
Before Adam
The Son of the Wolf
Children of the Frost
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Lost Face
South Sea Tales
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
Smoke Bellew
The Turtles of Tasman
On the Makaloa Mat
The Road
John Barleycorn
When God Laughs and Other Stories
Dutch Courage and Other Stories
The Human Drift and Other Stories
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
Love of Life and Other Stories
The Red One
The Night-Born
War of the Classes
The Faith of Men
The Strength of the Strong
Moon-Face and Other Stories
A Thousand Deaths
Up The Slide
The Sundog Trail
The Acorn-Planter
Theft
The People of the Abyss
Revolution and Other Essays
The Cruise of the Snark
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9786257287319
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EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Format HinweisWasserzeichen
Erscheinungsdatum21.01.2024
Seiten5000 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
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After working in the Klondike, Jack London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.

Early Years

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. Jack, as he came to call himself as a boy, was the son of Flora Wellman, an unwed mother, and William Chaney, an attorney, journalist and pioneering leader in the new field of American astrology. His father was never part of his life, and his mother ended up marrying John London, a Civil War veteran, who moved his new family around the Bay Area before settling in Oakland. London grew up working-class. He carved out his own hardscrabble life as a teen. He rode trains, pirated oysters, shoveled coal, worked on a sealing ship on the Pacific and found employment in a cannery. In his free time he hunkered down at libraries, soaking up novels and travel books.

The Young Writer

His life as a writer essentially began in 1893. That year he had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story. Armed with just an eighth-grade education, London captured the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford. For London, the contest was an eye-opening experience, and he decided to dedicate his life to writing short stories. But he had trouble finding willing publishers. After trying to make a go of it on the East Coast, he returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, before heading north to Canada to seek at least a small fortune in the gold rush happening in the Yukon. By the age of 22, however, London still hadn't put together much of a living. He had once again returned to California and was still determined to carve out a living as a writer. His experience in the Yukon had convinced him he had stories he could tell. In addition, his own poverty and that of the struggling men and women he encountered pushed him to embrace socialism. In 1899 he began publishing stories in the Overland Monthly. The experience of writing and getting published greatly disciplined London as a writer. From that time forward, London made it a practice to write at least a thousand words a day.

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