The Son of the Wolf - Softcover

Jack London

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523478551 ISBN 13: 9781523478552

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

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Novelist and short-story writer, London is one of the most widely translated of American authors. In 17 years of his literary career, London wrote 50 books. In his youth he took part in gold rushes and travelled widely.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1523478551
• ISBN 13: 9781523478552
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88