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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 · 1,080,063 ratings · 49,784 reviews · 7,939 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.92 avg rating — 481,795 ratings — published 1903 — 7519 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 — 210,393 ratings — published 1906 — 14 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 — 78,734 ratings — published 1903 — 299 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 — 57,570 ratings — published 1909 — 1984 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 — 34,244 ratings — published 1904 — 3765 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 — 27,529 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 — 22,812 ratings — published 1903 — 59 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 — 15,092 ratings — published 1912 — 1776 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) 3.78 avg rating — 12,901 ratings — published 1908 — 2016 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 4.17 avg rating — 11,378 ratings — published 1914 — 1534 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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June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages

9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

7 votes, 16.3%

1958, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 142 pages

6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages

5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 364 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1946, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 by Władysław Szpilman, 222 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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