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Jack London

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

January 12, 1876

Died

November 22, 1916

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Adventure, Classics

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Haeckel, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Darwin, Ru ...more

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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 Wh ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,057,654 ratings · 47,762 reviews · 7,710 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.92 avg rating — 472,479 ratings — published 1903 — 7524 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Fang 4.03 avg rating — 207,193 ratings — published 1906 — 3805 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild / White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 78,049 ratings — published 1903 — 261 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Eden 4.48 avg rating — 54,768 ratings — published 1909 — 1993 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Wolf 4.06 avg rating — 33,513 ratings — published 1904 — 3790 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Build a Fire 3.99 avg rating — 26,778 ratings — published 1902 — 185 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London, Earle G. Labor (Editor), Robert C. Leitz III (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 22,770 ratings — published 1903 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Plague 3.75 avg rating — 14,458 ratings — published 1912 — 1781 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator) 3.77 avg rating — 12,406 ratings — published 1908 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Star Rover 4.18 avg rating — 10,848 ratings — published 1914 — 1527 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1959, 224 pages

86 votes, 26.9%

White Fang by Jack London, 1906, 252 pages

86 votes, 26.9%

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966, 288 pages

42 votes, 13.1%

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944, 314 pages

40 votes, 12.5%

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 1963, 564 pages

26 votes, 8.1%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 1984, 367 pages

24 votes, 7.5%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 1919, 240 pages

16 votes, 5.0%

320 total votes

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