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Informationen zum Autor Jack London Klappentext Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other - and to all their fellow creatures? This collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel The Call of the Wild; such famous stories as "Love of Life," "To Build a Fire," and "All Gold Canyon"; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters. Zusammenfassung Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other - and to all their fellow creatures? This collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel The Call of the Wild ; such famous stories as " Love of Life ," " To Build a Fire ," and " All Gold Canyon "; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chronology of Jack London's Life and Books Note on the Texts and Selections Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading Selected Stories To the Man on Trail In a Far Country The Law of Life A Relic of the Pliocene Nam-Bok the Unveracious To Build a Fire (1902) Moon-Face Bâtard Love of Life All Gold Canyon The Apostate To Build a Fire (1908) The Chinago Koolau the Leper Good-by, Jack Mauki The Strength of the Strong Samuel A Piece of Steak The Madness of John Harned The Night-Born War Told in the Drooling Ward The Mexican The Red One The Water Baby The Call of the Wild Selected Nonfiction Typhoon off the Coast of Japan On the Writer's Philosophy of Life First Aid to Rising Authors Review of Frank Norris's The Octopus Excerpts from The People of the Abyss How I Became a Socialist Getting into Print The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction What Life Means to Me Things Alive The Story of an Eye-Witness Reports on the James J. Jeffries-Jack Johnson Championship Fight A Classic of the Sea Introduction to The Cry for Justice Eight Factors of Literary Success A Selection of Letters To the Editor, San Francisco Bulletin , September 17, 1898 To Mabel Applegarth, November 27, 1898 To Mabel Applegarth, November 30, 1898 To Anna Strunsky, December 21, 1899 To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., January 31, 1900 To Cloudesley Johns, June 16, 1900 To George P. Brett, March 10, 1903 To Charmian Kittredge, September 30, 1903 To Frederick I. Bamford, May 28, 1905 To Cloudesley Johns, September 4, 1905 To "Dear Comrades," December 1905 To S.S. McClure, April 10, 1906 To the Editor of Editor Magazine, April 1907 To Becky London, October 28, 1908 To Richard W. Gilder, December 22, 1908 To William E. Walling, November 30, 1909 To the Editor, Honolulu Advertiser , January 7, 1910 To the "Comrades of the Mexican Revolutio...
