London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd," in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, and socialism. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". 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 was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. 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. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." Enjoy our useful The Call of the Wild Study Guide, and visit our retrospective of Jack London images on Pinterest.John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. "The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage."
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." His best-selling book during his lifetime was his 1910 novel Burning Daylight.
London's most famous short story, particularly popular in both middle- and high school language arts classes, is To Build a Fire. The manner in which he chose to work contributed to those accusations he bought plots for stories and novels from a young Sinclair Lewis and he used incidents read in newspapers as material for his stories. He was prodigious writer producing over 500 works and was often accused of plagiarism. London became a well-known writer and was one of the first to achieve true financial success from his writings. It would takeĪ deep plummet to reach bottom in the Erie County Pen, and I do but skim lightlyĪnd facetiously the surface of things as I there saw them." The ways of the world and the awful abysses of human degradation. They were unthinkable to me until I saw them, and I was no spring chicken in I say 'unprintable' and in justice I must also say 'unthinkable'. "Man-handling was merely one of the very minor unprintable horrors of the ErieĬounty Pen.
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