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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.
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 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.
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London.The book's protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
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. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906.
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 ...
J. Phillip "Jack" London (April 30, 1937 – January 18, 2021) [1] was an American businessman. He joined CACI International Inc as a consultant in 1972 and rose through the ranks to become CEO in 1984. London helped the professional services firm become a $5.7 billion dollar world government contracting company providing advanced technology ...
Revolution and Other Essays is a collection of 13 Jack London essays and stories published in 1910 by The Macmillan Company. [1] The collection includes fictional stories and essays. Most, but not all, of its contents concern socialism and injustice.