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The Jack London Classics Collection: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, Martin Eden, The Iron Heel
Five Novels In One! In one, compact volume, Jack London's five most popular and influential classic
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea-Wolf
Martin Eden
The Iron Heel
John London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist and social activist. A pioneering writer of commercial fiction, he became one of the first American authors to become a true international literary celebrity and was an innovator in the development of the genre of science fiction. He continues to be remembered as one of the most enduringly popular and influential American authors of his era, beloved by readers young and old.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in 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". Also popular was his psychological adventure novel The Sea-Wolf, featuring one of his most memorable characters, sea captain Wolf Larsen, his künstlerroman Martin Eden, focused on the coming of age of a self-taught aspiring writer, and the dystopian sci-fi novel The Iron Heel.
London was a member of "The Crowd" -- a San Francisco-based literary group dedicated to radical politics -- and was a passionate advocate for unionization, socialism, and eugenics, topics he often addressed in his writing, including in The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea-Wolf
Martin Eden
The Iron Heel
John London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist and social activist. A pioneering writer of commercial fiction, he became one of the first American authors to become a true international literary celebrity and was an innovator in the development of the genre of science fiction. He continues to be remembered as one of the most enduringly popular and influential American authors of his era, beloved by readers young and old.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in 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". Also popular was his psychological adventure novel The Sea-Wolf, featuring one of his most memorable characters, sea captain Wolf Larsen, his künstlerroman Martin Eden, focused on the coming of age of a self-taught aspiring writer, and the dystopian sci-fi novel The Iron Heel.
London was a member of "The Crowd" -- a San Francisco-based literary group dedicated to radical politics -- and was a passionate advocate for unionization, socialism, and eugenics, topics he often addressed in his writing, including in The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
692 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 3, 2023
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Jack London
8,120 books8,127 followersJohn 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".
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".
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March 13, 2023
This was not the one I read. I read The Iron Heel as a stand alone. Even though this is not one of London's best known works it is still a brilliantly written alternative history of what might have happened if a Russian style revaluation had taken place in the U.S. Great short story.
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