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 ... his self-created image of a once poor boy to now famous writer"(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 Wel...

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• 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 ... his self-created image of a once poor boy to now famous writer"(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 Wel...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the Klondike stretched for the opening pages of White Fang as brutal, relentless, and destructive of everything soft and gentle. This tests his imaginatively ideas about life (Bryan 1814). In Jack London's literary career he was known as a novelist, short story writer, and political essayist. He worked at a succession of odd jobs, including at the salmon cannery, an Oyster pirate, patrol ... He was also a seal fisher, jute mill worker, coal shoveling, and laundry worker beginning in 1890. Then he marched with the Army to Washington DC, and tramped throughout the U.S. and Canada beginning...

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

Literature 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 ... work of the twentieth century". To us, looking backward from the closing decades of the century, this claim does not seem extravagant. For with every passing year, The "Iron Heel" now seems more timely, more vital. When Jack London wrote this novel in 1906, the Russian revolution of 1905 was being crushed by the Czar's army, secret ... depressions and how they affected his depiction of Eden. 1910 Lost Face Lost Face is a collection of ...

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