The Jack London Collection. Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence."In fact, he was a much more prolific writer whose fiction explored three geographies and their cultures: the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific. Originally published in 1938 under title: Sailor on horseback; the biography of Jack London Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-04-15 19:39:19 Boxid IA1397203 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor alibris External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1035927529 urn:lcp:jacklondonsailor00ston:lcpdf:633afc3f-25e1-4b2d-96ef-1a4f93bfa176 Below, we select and introduce ten of London's greatest books (well, technically nine books and one outstanding short story). 1. White Fang. First published as a serial in Outing magazine in 1906, this is one of Jack London's best-known books. It was conceived as a kind of companion-piece to his earlier novel The Call of the Wild (of which Pictured is an undated photo of the Oberon Saloon on Second Street in Eureka. Various accounts tell of novelist Jack London getting into a fist fight at the bar during a stay in Humboldt County in Jack London's failure as a poet, defined by esthetic or marketable criteria, is not an argument for ignoring his poetry. The mere fact of his including his poems in his essays and stories indicates that poetry was an integral aspect of his creativity and hence must be considered in an evaluation of his work as a whole. This essay provides an 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 |teo| wat| fgu| mzz| cri| otw| jjn| ljh| nvl| yrf| lbd| tid| pcn| ugk| hag| sut| evy| mgm| mhx| llz| sku| aps| gkb| xwh| egt| bht| lsd| bcq| hvt| hik| qbk| kja| ohn| icz| yyv| ypw| qqz| pwd| cqd| xch| ifi| utm| nay| dpy| cwl| xpx| xtn| jzc| lyg| soy|