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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 · 1,074,372 ratings · 49,223 reviews · 8,081 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.92 avg rating — 479,361 ratings — published 1903 — 7508 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 — 209,561 ratings — published 1906 — 6048 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 — 78,554 ratings — published 1903 — 367 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 — 56,823 ratings — published 1909 — 80 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 — 34,036 ratings — published 1904 — 2548 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 — 27,353 ratings — published 1902 — 186 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 — 22,803 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 — 14,937 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 — 12,789 ratings — published 1908 — 1931 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 — 11,248 ratings — published 1914 — 1522 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 Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 132 pages, 1952

82 votes, 25.3%

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 56 pages, 1842

61 votes, 18.8%

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42 votes, 13.0%

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36 votes, 11.1%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

30 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

26 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903

15 votes, 4.6%

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, 22 pages, 1926

13 votes, 4.0%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 32 pages, 1941

13 votes, 4.0%

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6 votes, 1.9%

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