... " in London's poor areas, to get as close as possible to the people he wrote about. His successes grew bigger and bigger in the following years and his life became influenced by popularity and success. His own experiences of poverty, grinding factory work, life on the road, and imprisonment had shown him that life was a brutal struggle for survival. He expressed that in his books. Jack wrote the Call of the Wild ... one is Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild is an example of the contradictory theories of individualism and socialism. This romance and beast fable is the most famous and wide...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... by Jack London 1900 The Son of the Wolf This book centers on the exploits of Malemute Kid, who dispenses crude but unerring justice through his cunning understanding of the people of this raw frontier territory. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the unsuspected qualities of exceptional women and on the complex relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. 1901 The God of His Fathers 1902 Children of the Frost 1902 The ... the forest, drawn by his need to hunt and his friendship with a pack of wolves. Now Buck must de...

• Word Count: 1888
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Jack London (1876-1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20th century. He 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." He was a productive writer whose fiction traveled through three lands and their cultures such as the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific ... "(biography of Jack London). He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays. London was born in San Francisco to an unmarried mother, Flora Well...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

All of Jack London's stories are baser on personal experiences, which shows that he is fascinated by pain and nature. He was the child of Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney. However, Chaney refused to acknowledge London as his own. Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born."" (Wilson) While growing up, London never knew true happiness and ... Woman- and with whom he found true love. Together, they played, traveled, wrote and enjoyed life. Their one child, Joy, only lived for thirty-eight hours."" ...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... London entered Oakland High School to prepare himself for college exams, cramming the same energy that he used for shoveling coal. He also published his first stories in the schools library magazine, The Aegis. In addition, he joined the Socialist labor party and threw himself into the activities, by gaining a degree of notoriety as a sheet corner crater, " The Boy Socialist of Oakland," as the ... of high quality work over a period of eighteen years. Jack had become the best-selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time. He was prolific: fifty one of his books and hu...

• Word Count: 1996
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School