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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


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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.0 · 1,080,444 ratings · 49,824 reviews · 7,703 distinct works • Similar authors
The Call of the Wild
3.92 avg rating — 481,962 ratings — published 1903 — 14 editions
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White Fang
4.03 avg rating — 210,450 ratings — published 1906 — 7 editions
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The Call of the Wild / Whit...
4.12 avg rating — 78,736 ratings — published 1903 — 412 editions
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Martin Eden
4.48 avg rating — 57,617 ratings — published 1909 — 1235 editions
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The Sea Wolf
4.06 avg rating — 34,255 ratings — published 1904 — 979 editions
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To Build a Fire
3.99 avg rating — 27,552 ratings — published 1902 — 190 editions
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The Call of the Wild, White...
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4.05 avg rating — 22,813 ratings — published 1903 — 59 editions
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The Scarlet Plague
3.75 avg rating — 15,102 ratings — published 1912 — 1776 editions
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The Iron Heel
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3.78 avg rating — 12,913 ratings — published 1908 — 4 editions
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The Star Rover
4.17 avg rating — 11,383 ratings — published 1914 — 49 editions
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Series by Jack London

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Quotes by Jack London  (?)
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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London
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“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London
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“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman
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Polls

January 2016 Short Story Read

 
  27 votes, 19.9%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages
 
  22 votes, 16.2%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages
 
  19 votes, 14.0%

 
  17 votes, 12.5%

1945, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 87 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.8%

 
  11 votes, 8.1%

 
  9 votes, 6.6%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.1%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1903, To Build A Fire by Jack London, 32 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1886, Kholstomer by Leo Tolstoy, 56 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

136 total votes
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