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Hace 2 días · John Griffith Chaney [1] [A] (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, [2] [3] [4] [5] 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. [6]
Hace 4 días · Jack London (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival.
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- Jack London's first book, The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North (1900), was a collection of short stories that he had previously published in...
- Jack London wrote and published steadily, completing some 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years, and became the highest-paid writer in the...
- The short story "To Build a Fire" (1908) was set in the Klondike and is a masterly depiction of humankind’s inability to overcome nature. It was re...
- The autobiographical novels of Jack London are Martin Eden (1909), The Road (1907), and John Barleycorn (1913).
- The Call of the Wild is often considered to be Jack London's masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications. The story follows Buc...
16 de may. de 2024 · Insistimos en destacar ese Jack London político que el éxito de sus libros de aventuras ha terminado por ocultarlo. Como señala Javier Paniagua, «London es, de alguna manera, un Zola norteamericano que supo identificarse con las clases populares con un lenguaje asequible y ameno”. Con sus 20 novelas, 18 colecciones de cuentos y sus más ...
22 de may. de 2024 · The Call of the Wild, novel by Jack London, published serially by The Saturday Evening Post in 1903 and then as a single-volume book by Macmillan & Co. the same year. It is often considered to be his masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications.
26 de may. de 2024 · Publisher's Write-Up. Novelist and short story writer Jack London (1876-1916) contemplated the strange theory of astral travel, penning The Star Rover in 1914. The last of London's fifty books, which include White Fang and The Call of the Wild, The Star Rover centres on San Quentin prison inmate Darrell Standing, a former university ...
6 de may. de 2024 · Jack the Ripper, pseudonymous murderer of at least five women in or near the Whitechapel district of London’s East End between August and November 1888. The case is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of English crime.
Hace 4 días · Jack London, una vida de novela. May 29, 2024 | Curiosidades, Literatura. Presentado. J. T. LeRoy o cómo se gestó uno de los mayores engaños literarios ...
