John Griffith "Jack" London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist.
He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Sea Wolf set in the San Francisco Bay area.
London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss.
This collection contains the following novels:
•The Call of the Wild
•White Fang
•The Sea-Wolf
•Martin Eden
•The Iron Heel
•The People of the Abyss
•The Scarlet Plague
•John Barleycorn
•The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
•The Cruise of the Snark
•Burning Daylight
Included also are links to audio versions of all the novels.
He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Sea Wolf set in the San Francisco Bay area.
London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss.
This collection contains the following novels:
•The Call of the Wild
•White Fang
•The Sea-Wolf
•Martin Eden
•The Iron Heel
•The People of the Abyss
•The Scarlet Plague
•John Barleycorn
•The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
•The Cruise of the Snark
•Burning Daylight
Included also are links to audio versions of all the novels.
