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The biographer Stasz notes that the passage "has many marks of London's style" but the only line that could be safely attributed to London was the first. [118] The words Shepard quoted were from a story in the San Francisco Bulletin , December 2, 1916, by journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who visited the ranch just weeks before London's death.
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush.
"The South of the Slot" is a short story by American naturalist writer Jack London (1876–1916). It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 181, May, 1909. [1] In 1914, it was published by Macmillan in a collection of Jack London’s stories, The Strength of the Strong. [2]
London varied his prose style to reflect the action. He wrote in an over-affected style in his descriptions of Charles, Hal, and Mercedes' camp as a reflection of their intrusion into the wilderness. Conversely, when describing Buck and his actions, London wrote in a style that was pared down and simple—a style that would influence and be the ...
Biographers have been intrigued by The Kempton-Wace Letters for the light it seems to shed on Jack London's life and ideas. Strunsky was named as the co-respondent in Jack London's divorce from his first wife, Bessie, but biographers generally agree that his relation with the younger Strunsky was platonic. They were active in socialism and the ...
Harry Bridges, influential labor leader in the mid-1900s, was "set afire" by Jack London's The Sea-Wolf and The Iron Heel. [ 6 ] Granville Hicks , reviewing Kurt Vonnegut 's Player Piano , was reminded of The Iron Heel : "we are taken into the future and shown an America ruled by a tiny oligarchy, and here too there is a revolt that fails."
The historic Northern California home of literary giant Jack London is for sale for $4.95 million in Sonoma County wine country.. Located in Glen Ellen on three acres, the Wake Robin property is ...
John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of drinking and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong " John Barleycorn ".