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Jack London

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

January 12, 1876

Died

November 22, 1916

Website

http://www.jacklondons.net/index.html

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Adventure, Classics

Influences

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

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Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.

London drew heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 548,252 ratings · 16,634 reviews · 1,646 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.83 avg rating — 246,792 ratings — published 1903 — 7 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 3.94 avg rating — 113,624 ratings — published 1906 — 1068 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 4.08 avg rating — 63,090 ratings — published 1906 — 148 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 4.01 avg rating — 19,281 ratings — published 1904 — 208 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 3.97 avg rating — 17,203 ratings — published 1906 — 21 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 by Jack London, Andrew Sinclair (Introduction) 4.38 avg rating — 14,620 ratings — published 1909 — 394 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 3.92 avg rating — 12,556 ratings — published 1903 — 77 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) 3.74 avg rating — 5,444 ratings — published 1908 — 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
	To Build a Fire and Other Stories 4.03 avg rating — 3,560 ratings — published 1993 — 29 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 by Jack London, Lorenzo Carcaterra (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 3,098 ratings — published 1914 — 223 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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Series by Jack London

Džeks Londons. Kopoti raksti (1 book)
by Jack London, Jack London
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings

Quotes by Jack London

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: inspiration, on-writing, writing

2311 likes

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

2008 likes

“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

May 2016 New School Group Read

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages

31 votes, 13.8%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

28 votes, 12.5%

1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages

26 votes, 11.6%

1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

22 votes, 9.8%

1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages

21 votes, 9.4%

1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

19 votes, 8.5%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages

15 votes, 6.7%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages

13 votes, 5.8%

1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages

12 votes, 5.4%

1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages

10 votes, 4.5%

1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages

9 votes, 4.0%

1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages

6 votes, 2.7%

1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages

5 votes, 2.2%

1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages

4 votes, 1.8%

1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages

3 votes, 1.3%

224 total votes

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