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"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]
The story was adapted into a wordless 9-minute animated short film in 2008. [4] It was the diploma work of director Rishat Gilmetdinov for the Saint Petersburg State University for Film Industry and Television, supervised by Konstantin Bronzit and Dmitriy Vysotskiy, and won the "Best Student Film" award at the 2009 Open Russian Festival of Animated Films.
Jack London was born January 12, 1876. [10] His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones.
London foreshadows the death of the man early in the story, so it is not a surprise that the man dies, and closer to the end he recalls the cold and the old-timer as he accepts his fate. However, London depicts death quite differently than many other authors do. The man drifts off into a calm, peaceful slumber devoid of suffering and pain.
To Link, while American naturalism had trends, its definition had no unified critical consensus. [3] Link's examples include Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris, with William Dean Howells and Henry James being clear markers on the other side of the naturalist/realist divide.
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 ...
"The White Silence" is a short story written by American author Jack London in 1899. Like many of London's short stories, it takes place in the Yukon. The story chronicles the travels of three people across the Northland Trail in the Yukon, as they try to reach civilization before spring.
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