Сын Солнца. Сборник рассказов

by Jack London, Джек Лондон

Американский писатель Джек Лондон (наст. имя Джон Гриффит; 1876—1916) прошел противоречивый и сложный творческий путь. В детстве он рано вынужден был искать заработок. Некоторое время бродяжничал, плавал матросом на промысловой шхуне, переменил множество профессий и, наконец, зараженный «золотой лихорадкой», отправился на Аляску. Золотоискательство стало темой первых его рассказов, довольно скоро принесших ему широкую известность. Романтика борьбы человека с природой вносит в произведения Лондона элементы, характерные для приключенческого жанра. В данном томе представлены повести и рассказы, созданные писателем в период с 1911 по 1916 год.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 24, 2016

About the author

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".