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Американский писатель

Джек Лондон родился в 1876 в Сан-Франциско. Его настоящее имя было Джон Гриффит. Он был самым успешным писателем Америки начала 20 века, чья жизнь символизировала силу воли.

Происхождение

Семья Лондона была очень бедна, поэтому он начал работать в возрасте 8 лет. Он продавал газеты, работал на кораблях и фабриках. Джек путешествовал через океан как моряк, шел пешком из Сан Франциско в Нью Йорк с армией безработных и назад через Канаду в Ванкувер. Лондон изучал великих мастеров литературы и читал работы великих ученых и философов.

Заключение

Поворотным событием в жизни Джека было тридцатидневное заключение, которое заставило учиться и позднее заняться писательской деятельностью.

Лучшие короткие рассказы

В 1987 году Джек Лондон присоединился к золотой лихорадке и направился в Клондайк. Он не принес с собой золота, но те годы оставили свой след в его лучших коротких рассказах; среди них «Зов предков», «Белый клык», «Сын волка» и «Белое безмолвие». Они представляют собой захватывающее повествование о борьбе человека с природой. Его роман «Морской волк» основан на опыте, полученном в море.

Проблемы индивидуумов и общества, а также некоторые трудности, с которыми Лондон сам столкнулся в первые годы как писатель описаны в «Железной пяте» и «Мартине Идене».

Последние годы жизни

В течение 16 лет своей литературной деятельности Джек Лондон издал около 50 книг: Короткие рассказы, романы и эссе. В 1910 году Лондон поселился около Глен Элен в Калифорнии, где намеревался построить дом своей мечты. После того как дом сгорел до его завершения в 1913, Лондон был разбитым и больным человеком. Джек Лондон умер от различных болезней и лечения с помощью наркотиков в возрасте 40 лет в 1916.

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Jack London

American writer

Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco. His real name was John Griffit. He was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th century, whose life symbolized the power of will.

Background

London’s family was very poor, so he began to work at the age of eight. He sold newspapers, worked on ships and in factories. Jack travelled across the ocean as a sailor, tramped from San Francisco to New York with an army of unemployed and back through Canada to Vancouver. London studied the great masters of literature and read the works of great scientists and philosophers.

Imprisonment

The turning point of Jack’s life was a thirty-day imprisonment, which made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing.

His best short stories

In 1897 Jack London joined the gold rush to the Klondike. He didn’t bring any gold back with him but those years left their mark in his best short stories; among them The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Son of the Wolf, and The white silence. They are gripping narratives of a man’s struggle with nature. His novel The Sea Wolf was based on his experiences at sea.

The problems of the individual and society as well as some of the difficulties London himself met during the first years of his literary work are described in The Iron Heel and Martin Eden.

The last year of life

During the sixteen years of his literary career Jack London published about fifty books: short stories, novels and essays. In 1910 London settled near Glen Ellen in California, where he intended to build his dream home. After the house burned down before completion in 1913, London was a broken and sick man. Jack London died from various diseases and drug treatments at the age of forty in 1916.

John Griffith Chaney[1] (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] He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.[7]

Jack London

London in 1903

London in 1903

Born John Griffith Chaney
January 12, 1876
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died November 22, 1916 (aged 40)
Glen Ellen, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • journalist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
Literary movement Realism, Naturalism
Notable works The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Spouse

Elizabeth Maddern

(m. ; div.

)​

Charmian Kittredge

(m. 1905)​

Children Joan London
Bessie London
Signature
Jack London Signature.svg

London was part of the radical literary group «The Crowd» in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism.[8][9] 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 White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories «To Build a Fire», «An Odyssey of the North», and «Love of Life». He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as «The Pearls of Parlay», and «The Heathen».

Family

Flora and John London, Jack’s mother and stepfather

Jack London was born January 12, 1876.[10] His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[11] Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.[12][clarification needed]

Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe London’s father was astrologer William Chaney.[13] Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London’s mother Flora Wellman as having been «his wife»; he also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself «Florence Wellman Chaney».[14]

According to Flora Wellman’s account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child. In desperation, she shot herself. She was not seriously wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora sent the baby for wet-nursing to Virginia (Jennie) Prentiss, a formerly enslaved African-American woman and a neighbor. Prentiss was an important maternal figure throughout London’s life, and he would later refer to her as his primary source of love and affection as a child.[15]

Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple. The family moved around the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Oakland, where London completed public grade school. The Prentiss family moved with the Londons, and remained a stable source of care for the young Jack.[15]

In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother’s suicide attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney responded that he could not be London’s father because he was impotent; he casually asserted that London’s mother had relations with other men and averred that she had slandered him when she said he insisted on an abortion. Chaney concluded by saying that he was more to be pitied than London.[16] London was devastated by his father’s letter; in the months following, he quit school at Berkeley and went to the Klondike during the gold rush boom.

Early life

London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885

London was born near Third and Brannan Streets in San Francisco. The house burned down in the fire after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the California Historical Society placed a plaque at the site in 1953. Although the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as London’s later accounts claimed.[citation needed] London was largely self-educated.[citation needed]
In 1885, London found and read Ouida’s long Victorian novel Signa.[17][18] He credited this as the seed of his literary success.[19] In 1886, he went to the Oakland Public Library and found a sympathetic librarian, Ina Coolbrith, who encouraged his learning. (She later became California’s first poet laureate and an important figure in the San Francisco literary community).[20]

In 1889, London began working 12 to 18 hours a day at Hickmott’s Cannery. Seeking a way out, he borrowed money from his foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate himself. In his memoir, John Barleycorn, he claims also to have stolen French Frank’s mistress Mamie.[21][22][23] After a few months, his sloop became damaged beyond repair. London hired on as a member of the California Fish Patrol.

In 1893, he signed on to the sealing schooner Sophie Sutherland, bound for the coast of Japan. When he returned, the country was in the grip of the panic of ’93 and Oakland was swept by labor unrest. After grueling jobs in a jute mill and a street-railway power plant, London joined Coxey’s Army and began his career as a tramp. In 1894, he spent 30 days for vagrancy in the Erie County Penitentiary at Buffalo, New York. In The Road, he wrote:

Man-handling was merely one of the very minor unprintable horrors of the Erie County Pen. I say ‘unprintable’; and in justice I must also say undescribable. They were unthinkable to me until I saw them, and I was no spring chicken in the ways of the world and the awful abysses of human degradation. It would take a deep plummet to reach bottom in the Erie County Pen, and I do but skim lightly and facetiously the surface of things as I there saw them.

— Jack London, The Road

After many experiences as a hobo and a sailor, he returned to Oakland and attended Oakland High School. He contributed a number of articles to the high school’s magazine, The Aegis. His first published work was «Typhoon off the Coast of Japan», an account of his sailing experiences.[24]

Jack London studying at Heinold’s First and Last Chance in 1886

As a schoolboy, London often studied at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, a port-side bar in Oakland. At 17, he confessed to the bar’s owner, John Heinold, his desire to attend university and pursue a career as a writer. Heinold lent London tuition money to attend college.

London desperately wanted to attend the University of California, located in Berkeley. In 1896, after a summer of intense studying to pass certification exams, he was admitted. Financial circumstances forced him to leave in 1897, and he never graduated. No evidence has surfaced that he ever wrote for student publications while studying at Berkeley.[25]

Heinold’s First and Last Chance, «Jack London’s Rendezvous»

While at Berkeley, London continued to study and spend time at Heinold’s saloon, where he was introduced to the sailors and adventurers who would influence his writing. In his autobiographical novel, John Barleycorn, London mentioned the pub’s likeness seventeen times. Heinold’s was the place where London met Alexander McLean, a captain known for his cruelty at sea.[26] London based his protagonist Wolf Larsen, in the novel The Sea-Wolf, on McLean.[27]

Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon is now unofficially named Jack London’s Rendezvous in his honor.[28]

Gold rush and first success

On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister’s husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London’s time in the harsh Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health. Like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen, leading to the loss of his four front teeth. A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, and his face was stricken with marks that always reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike. Father William Judge, «The Saint of Dawson», had a facility in Dawson that provided shelter, food and any available medicine to London and others. His struggles there inspired London’s short story, «To Build a Fire» (1902, revised in 1908),[A] which many critics assess as his best.[citation needed]

His landlords in Dawson were mining engineers Marshall Latham Bond and Louis Whitford Bond, educated at the Bachelor’s level at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and at the Master’s level at Stanford, respectively. The brothers’ father, Judge Hiram Bond, was a wealthy mining investor. While the Bond brothers were at Stanford, Hiram at the suggestion of his brother bought the New Park Estate at Santa Clara as well as a local bank. The Bonds, especially Hiram, were active Republicans. Marshall Bond’s diary mentions friendly sparring with London on political issues as a camp pastime.[citation needed]

London left Oakland with a social conscience and socialist leanings; he returned to become an activist for socialism. He concluded that his only hope of escaping the work «trap» was to get an education and «sell his brains». He saw his writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty and, he hoped, as a means of beating the wealthy at their own game.

On returning to California in 1898, London began working to get published, a struggle described in his novel Martin Eden (serialized in 1908, published in 1909). His first published story since high school was «To the Man On Trail», which has frequently been collected in anthologies.[citation needed] When The Overland Monthly offered him only five dollars for it—and was slow paying—London came close to abandoning his writing career. In his words, «literally and literarily I was saved» when The Black Cat accepted his story «A Thousand Deaths» and paid him $40—the «first money I ever received for a story».[citation needed]

London began his writing career just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public audience and a strong market for short fiction.[citation needed] In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, about $81,000 in today’s currency.[citation needed]
Among the works he sold to magazines was a short story known as either «Diable» (1902) or «Bâtard» (1904), two editions of the same basic story. London received $141.25 for this story on May 27, 1902.[29] In the text, a cruel French Canadian brutalizes his dog, and the dog retaliates and kills the man. London told some of his critics that man’s actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this famously in another story, The Call of the Wild.[30]

In early 1903, London sold The Call of the Wild to The Saturday Evening Post for $750 and the book rights to Macmillan. Macmillan’s promotional campaign propelled it to swift success.[31]

While living at his rented villa on Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, London met poet George Sterling; in time they became best friends. In 1902, Sterling helped London find a home closer to his own in nearby Piedmont. In his letters London addressed Sterling as «Greek», owing to Sterling’s aquiline nose and classical profile, and he signed them as «Wolf». London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1910) and as Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon (1913).[citation needed]

In later life London indulged his wide-ranging interests by accumulating a personal library of 15,000 volumes. He referred to his books as «the tools of my trade».[32]

First marriage (1900–1904)

Jack with daughters Becky (left) and Joan (right)

Bessie Maddern London and daughters, Joan and Becky

London married Elizabeth Mae (or May) «Bessie» Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was published. Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a number of years. She was related to stage actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Emily Stevens. Stasz says, «Both acknowledged publicly that they were not marrying out of love, but from friendship and a belief that they would produce sturdy children.»[33] Kingman says, «they were comfortable together… Jack had made it clear to Bessie that he did not love her, but that he liked her enough to make a successful marriage.»[34]

London met Bessie through his friend at Oakland High School, Fred Jacobs; she was Fred’s fiancée. Bessie, who tutored at Anderson’s University Academy in Alameda California, tutored Jack in preparation for his entrance exams for the University of California at Berkeley in 1896. Jacobs was killed aboard the Scandia in 1897, but Jack and Bessie continued their friendship, which included taking photos and developing the film together.[35] This was the beginning of Jack’s passion for photography.

During the marriage, London continued his friendship with Anna Strunsky, co-authoring The Kempton-Wace Letters, an epistolary novel contrasting two philosophies of love. Anna, writing «Dane Kempton’s» letters, arguing for a romantic view of marriage, while London, writing «Herbert Wace’s» letters, argued for a scientific view, based on Darwinism and eugenics. In the novel, his fictional character contrasted two women he had known.[citation needed]

London’s pet name for Bess was «Mother-Girl» and Bess’s for London was «Daddy-Boy».[36] Their first child, Joan, was born on January 15, 1901, and their second, Bessie «Becky» (also reported as Bess), on October 20, 1902. Both children were born in Piedmont, California. Here London wrote one of his most celebrated works, The Call of the Wild.

While London had pride in his children, the marriage was strained. Kingman says that by 1903 the couple were close to separation as they were «extremely incompatible». «Jack was still so kind and gentle with Bessie that when Cloudsley Johns was a house guest in February 1903 he didn’t suspect a breakup of their marriage.»[37]

London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling:

[Bessie] is devoted to purity. When I tell her morality is only evidence of low blood pressure, she hates me. She’d sell me and the children out for her damned purity. It’s terrible. Every time I come back after being away from home for a night she won’t let me be in the same room with her if she can help it.[38]

Stasz writes that these were «code words for [Bess’s] fear that [Jack] was consorting with prostitutes and might bring home venereal disease.»[39]

On July 24, 1903, London told Bessie he was leaving and moved out. During 1904, London and Bess negotiated the terms of a divorce, and the decree was granted on November 11, 1904.[40]

War correspondent (1904)

London accepted an assignment of the San Francisco Examiner to cover the Russo-Japanese War in early 1904, arriving in Yokohama on January 25, 1904. He was arrested by Japanese authorities in Shimonoseki, but released through the intervention of American ambassador Lloyd Griscom. After travelling to Korea, he was again arrested by Japanese authorities for straying too close to the border with Manchuria without official permission, and was sent back to Seoul. Released again, London was permitted to travel with the Imperial Japanese Army to the border, and to observe the Battle of the Yalu.

London asked William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the San Francisco Examiner, to be allowed to transfer to the Imperial Russian Army, where he felt that restrictions on his reporting and his movements would be less severe. However, before this could be arranged, he was arrested for a third time in four months, this time for assaulting his Japanese assistants, whom he accused of stealing the fodder for his horse. Released through the personal intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt, London departed the front in June 1904.[41]

Bohemian Club

On August 18, 1904, London went with his close friend, the poet George Sterling, to «Summer High Jinks» at the Bohemian Grove. London was elected to honorary membership in the Bohemian Club and took part in many activities. Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess, Allan Dunn, John Muir, Frank Norris,[citation needed] and Herman George Scheffauer.

Beginning in December 1914, London worked on The Acorn Planter, A California Forest Play, to be performed as one of the annual Grove Plays, but it was never selected. It was described as too difficult to set to music.[42] London published The Acorn Planter in 1916.[43]

Second marriage

Jack and Charmian London (c. 1915) at Waikiki

After divorcing Maddern, London married Charmian Kittredge in 1905. London had been introduced to Kittredge in 1900 by her aunt Netta Eames, who was an editor at Overland Monthly magazine in San Francisco. The two met prior to his first marriage but became lovers years later after Jack and Bessie London visited Wake Robin, Netta Eames’ Sonoma County resort, in 1903. London was injured when he fell from a buggy, and Netta arranged for Charmian to care for him. The two developed a friendship, as Charmian, Netta, her husband Roscoe, and London were politically aligned with socialist causes. At some point the relationship became romantic, and Jack divorced his wife to marry Charmian, who was five years his senior.[44]

Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian «Jack’s soul-mate, always at his side, and a perfect match.» Their time together included numerous trips, including a 1907 cruise on the yacht Snark to Hawaii and Australia.[45] Many of London’s stories are based on his visits to Hawaii, the last one for 10 months beginning in December 1915.[46]

The couple also visited Goldfield, Nevada, in 1907, where they were guests of the Bond brothers, London’s Dawson City landlords. The Bond brothers were working in Nevada as mining engineers.

London had contrasted the concepts of the «Mother Girl» and the «Mate Woman» in The Kempton-Wace Letters. His pet name for Bess had been «Mother-Girl;» his pet name for Charmian was «Mate-Woman.»[47] Charmian’s aunt and foster mother, a disciple of Victoria Woodhull, had raised her without prudishness.[48] Every biographer alludes to Charmian’s uninhibited sexuality.[49][50]

The Snark in Australia, 1921

Joseph Noel calls the events from 1903 to 1905 «a domestic drama that would have intrigued the pen of an Ibsen…. London’s had comedy relief in it and a sort of easy-going romance.»[51] In broad outline, London was restless in his first marriage, sought extramarital sexual affairs, and found, in Charmian Kittredge, not only a sexually active and adventurous partner, but his future life-companion. They attempted to have children; one child died at birth, and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.[52]

In 1906, London published in Collier’s magazine his eye-witness report of the San Francisco earthquake.[53]

Beauty Ranch (1905–1916)

In 1905, London purchased a 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain.[54] He wrote: «Next to my wife, the ranch is the dearest thing in the world to me.» He desperately wanted the ranch to become a successful business enterprise. Writing, always a commercial enterprise with London, now became even more a means to an end: «I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.»

Stasz writes that London «had taken fully to heart the vision, expressed in his agrarian fiction, of the land as the closest earthly version of Eden … he educated himself through the study of agricultural manuals and scientific tomes. He conceived of a system of ranching that today would be praised for its ecological wisdom.»[citation needed] He was proud to own the first concrete silo in California. He hoped to adapt the wisdom of Asian sustainable agriculture to the United States. He hired both Italian and Chinese stonemasons, whose distinctly different styles are obvious.

The ranch was an economic failure. Sympathetic observers such as Stasz treat his projects as potentially feasible, and ascribe their failure to bad luck or to being ahead of their time. Unsympathetic historians such as Kevin Starr suggest that he was a bad manager, distracted by other concerns and impaired by his alcoholism. Starr notes that London was absent from his ranch about six months a year between 1910 and 1916 and says, «He liked the show of managerial power, but not grinding attention to detail …. London’s workers laughed at his efforts to play big-time rancher [and considered] the operation a rich man’s hobby.»[55]

London spent $80,000 ($2,410,000 in current value) to build a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) stone mansion called Wolf House on the property. Just as the mansion was nearing completion, two weeks before the Londons planned to move in, it was destroyed by fire.

London’s last visit to Hawaii,[56] beginning in December 1915, lasted eight months. He met with Duke Kahanamoku, Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana’ole, Queen Lili’uokalani and many others, before returning to his ranch in July 1916.[46] He was suffering from kidney failure, but he continued to work.

The ranch (abutting stone remnants of Wolf House) is now a National Historic Landmark and is protected in Jack London State Historic Park.

Animal activism

London witnessed animal cruelty in the training of circus animals, and his subsequent novels Jerry of the Islands and Michael, Brother of Jerry included a foreword entreating the public to become more informed about this practice.[57] In 1918, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Humane Education Society teamed up to create the Jack London Club, which sought to inform the public about cruelty to circus animals and encourage them to protest this establishment.[58] Support from Club members led to a temporary cessation of trained animal acts at Ringling-Barnum and Bailey in 1925.[59]

Death

Grave of Jack and Charmian London

London died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. London had been a robust man but had suffered several serious illnesses, including scurvy in the Klondike.[60] Additionally, during travels on the Snark, he and Charmian picked up unspecified tropical infections and diseases, including yaws.[61] At the time of his death, he suffered from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism, and uremia;[62] he was in extreme pain and taking morphine and opium, both common, over-the-counter drugs at the time.[63]

London’s ashes were buried on his property not far from the Wolf House. London’s funeral took place on November 26, 1916, attended only by close friends, relatives, and workers of the property. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated and buried next to some pioneer children, under a rock that belonged to the Wolf House. After Charmian’s death in 1955, she was also cremated and then buried with her husband in the same spot that her husband chose. The grave is marked by a mossy boulder. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.

Suicide debate

Because he was using morphine, many older sources describe London’s death as a suicide, and some still do.[64] This conjecture appears to be a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate[65] gives the cause as uremia, following acute renal colic.

The biographer Stasz writes, «Following London’s death, for a number of reasons, a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature.»[66] Most biographers, including Russ Kingman, now agree he died of uremia aggravated by an accidental morphine overdose.[67]

London’s fiction featured several suicides. In his autobiographical memoir John Barleycorn, he claims, as a youth, to have drunkenly stumbled overboard into the San Francisco Bay, «some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me». He said he drifted and nearly succeeded in drowning before sobering up and being rescued by fishermen. In the dénouement of The Little Lady of the Big House, the heroine, confronted by the pain of a mortal gunshot wound, undergoes a physician-assisted suicide by morphine. Also, in Martin Eden, the principal protagonist, who shares certain characteristics with London,[68] drowns himself.[69][citation needed]

Plagiarism accusations

London in his office, 1916

London was vulnerable to accusations of plagiarism, both because he was such a conspicuous, prolific, and successful writer and because of his methods of working. He wrote in a letter to Elwyn Hoffman, «expression, you see—with me—is far easier than invention.» He purchased plots and novels from the young Sinclair Lewis[70] and used incidents from newspaper clippings as writing material.[citation needed]

In July 1901, two pieces of fiction appeared within the same month: London’s «Moon-Face», in the San Francisco Argonaut, and Frank Norris’ «The Passing of Cock-eye Blacklock», in Century Magazine. Newspapers showed the similarities between the stories, which London said were «quite different in manner of treatment, [but] patently the same in foundation and motive.»[71] London explained both writers based their stories on the same newspaper account. A year later, it was discovered that Charles Forrest McLean had published a fictional story also based on the same incident.[72]

Egerton Ryerson Young[73][74] claimed The Call of the Wild (1903) was taken from Young’s book My Dogs in the Northland (1902). London acknowledged using it as a source and claimed to have written a letter to Young thanking him.[75]

In 1906, the New York World published «deadly parallel» columns showing eighteen passages from London’s short story «Love of Life» side by side with similar passages from a nonfiction article by Augustus Biddle and J. K. Macdonald, titled «Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun».[76] London noted the World did not accuse him of «plagiarism», but only of «identity of time and situation», to which he defiantly «pled guilty».[77]

The most serious charge of plagiarism was based on London’s «The Bishop’s Vision», Chapter 7 of his novel The Iron Heel (1908). The chapter is nearly identical to an ironic essay that Frank Harris published in 1901, titled «The Bishop of London and Public Morality».[78] Harris was incensed and suggested he should receive 1/60th of the royalties from The Iron Heel, the disputed material constituting about that fraction of the whole novel. London insisted he had clipped a reprint of the article, which had appeared in an American newspaper, and believed it to be a genuine speech delivered by the Bishop of London.[citation needed]

Views

Atheism

London was an atheist.[79] He is quoted as saying, «I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.»[80]

London wrote from a socialist viewpoint, which is evident in his novel The Iron Heel. Neither a theorist nor an intellectual socialist, London’s socialism grew out of his life experience. As London explained in his essay, «How I Became a Socialist»,[81] his views were influenced by his experience with people at the bottom of the social pit. His optimism and individualism faded, and he vowed never to do more hard physical work than necessary. He wrote that his individualism was hammered out of him, and he was politically reborn. He often closed his letters «Yours for the Revolution.»[82]

London joined the Socialist Labor Party in April 1896. In the same year, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about the twenty-year-old London’s giving nightly speeches in Oakland’s City Hall Park, an activity he was arrested for a year later. In 1901, he left the Socialist Labor Party and joined the new Socialist Party of America. He ran unsuccessfully as the high-profile Socialist candidate for mayor of Oakland in 1901 (receiving 245 votes) and 1905 (improving to 981 votes), toured the country lecturing on socialism in 1906, and published two collections of essays about socialism: War of the Classes (1905) and Revolution, and other Essays (1906).

Stasz notes that «London regarded the Wobblies as a welcome addition to the Socialist cause, although he never joined them in going so far as to recommend sabotage.»[83] Stasz mentions a personal meeting between London and Big Bill Haywood in 1912.[84]

In his late (1913) book The Cruise of the Snark, London writes about appeals to him for membership of the Snark’s crew from office workers and other «toilers» who longed for escape from the cities, and of being cheated by workmen.

In his Glen Ellen ranch years, London felt some ambivalence toward socialism and complained about the «inefficient Italian labourers» in his employ.[85] In 1916, he resigned from the Glen Ellen chapter of the Socialist Party, but stated emphatically he did so «because of its lack of fire and fight, and its loss of emphasis on the class struggle.» In an unflattering portrait of London’s ranch days, California cultural historian Kevin Starr refers to this period as «post-socialist» and says «… by 1911 … London was more bored by the class struggle than he cared to admit.»[86]

Race

Jeffries (left) vs. Johnson, 1910

London shared common concerns among many European Americans in California about Asian immigration, described as «the yellow peril»; he used the latter term as the title of a 1904 essay.[87] This theme was also the subject of a story he wrote in 1910 called «The Unparalleled Invasion». Presented as an historical essay set in the future, the story narrates events between 1976 and 1987, in which China, with an ever-increasing population, is taking over and colonizing its neighbors with the intention of taking over the entire Earth. The western nations respond with biological warfare and bombard China with dozens of the most infectious diseases.[88] On his fears about China, he admits (at the end of «The Yellow Peril»), «it must be taken into consideration that the above postulate is itself a product of Western race-egotism, urged by our belief in our own righteousness and fostered by a faith in ourselves which may be as erroneous as are most fond race fancies.»

By contrast, many of London’s short stories are notable for their empathetic portrayal of Mexican («The Mexican»), Asian («The Chinago»), and Hawaiian («Koolau the Leper») characters. London’s war correspondence from the Russo-Japanese War, as well as his unfinished novel Cherry, show he admired much about Japanese customs and capabilities.[89] London’s writings have been popular among the Japanese, who believe he portrayed them positively.[15]

In «Koolau the Leper», London describes Koolau, who is a Hawaiian leper—and thus a very different sort of «superman» than Martin Eden—and who fights off an entire cavalry troop to elude capture, as «indomitable spiritually—a … magnificent rebel». This character is based on Hawaiian leper Kaluaikoolau, who in 1893 revolted and resisted capture from forces of the Provisional Government of Hawaii in the Kalalau Valley.

Those who defend London against charges of racism cite the letter he wrote to the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly in 1913:

In reply to yours of August 16, 1913. First of all, I should say by stopping the stupid newspaper from always fomenting race prejudice. This of course, being impossible, I would say, next, by educating the people of Japan so that they will be too intelligently tolerant to respond to any call to race prejudice. And, finally, by realizing, in industry and government, of socialism—which last word is merely a word that stands for the actual application of in the affairs of men of the theory of the Brotherhood of Man.

In the meantime the nations and races are only unruly boys who have not yet grown to the stature of men. So we must expect them to do unruly and boisterous things at times. And, just as boys grow up, so the races of mankind will grow up and laugh when they look back upon their childish quarrels.[90]

In 1996, after the City of Whitehorse, Yukon, renamed a street in honor of London, protests over London’s alleged racism forced the city to change the name of «Jack London Boulevard»[failed verification] back to «Two-mile Hill».[91]

Shortly after boxer Jack Johnson was crowned the first black world heavyweight champ in 1908, London pleaded for a «great white hope» to come forward to defeat Johnson, writing: «Jim Jeffries must now emerge from his Alfalfa farm and remove that golden smile from Jack Johnson’s face. Jeff, it’s up to you. The White Man must be rescued.»[92]

Eugenics

With other modernist writers of the day,[93] London supported eugenics.[8] The notion of «good breeding» complemented the Progressive era scientism, the belief that humans assort along a hierarchy by race, religion, and ethnicity. The Progressive Era catalog of inferiority offered basis for threats to American Anglo-Saxon racial integrity. London wrote to Frederick H. Robinson of the periodical Medical Review of Reviews, stating, «I believe the future belongs to eugenics, and will be determined by the practice of eugenics.»[94] Although this led some to argue for forced sterilization of criminals or those deemed feeble-minded.,[95] London did not express this extreme. His short story «Told in the Drooling Ward» is from the viewpoint of a surprisingly astute «feebled-minded» person.

Hensley argues that London’s novel Before Adam (1906–07) reveals pro-eugenic themes.[9] London advised his collaborator Anna Strunsky during preparation of The Kempton-Wace Letters that he would take the role of eugenics in mating, while she would argue on behalf of romantic love. (Love won the argument.) [96] The Valley of the Moon emphasizes the theme of «real Americans,» the Anglo Saxon, yet in Little Lady of the Big House, London is more nuanced. The protagonist’s argument is not that all white men are superior, but that there are more superior ones among whites than in other races. By encouraging the best in any race to mate will improve its population qualities.[97] Living in Hawaii challenged his orthodoxy. In «My Hawaiian Aloha,» London noted the liberal intermarrying of races, concluding how «little Hawaii, with its hotch potch races, is making a better demonstration than the United States.»[98]

Works

Short stories

Jack London (date unknown)

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes:[99]

London’s true métier was the short story … London’s true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly not always—could have benefited from self-editing.

London’s «strength of utterance» is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed.[citation needed] «To Build a Fire» is the best known of all his stories. Set in the harsh Klondike, it recounts the haphazard trek of a new arrival who has ignored an old-timer’s warning about the risks of traveling alone. Falling through the ice into a creek in seventy-five-below weather, the unnamed man is keenly aware that survival depends on his untested skills at quickly building a fire to dry his clothes and warm his extremities. After publishing a tame version of this story—with a sunny outcome—in The Youth’s Companion in 1902, London offered a second, more severe take on the man’s predicament in The Century Magazine in 1908. Reading both provides an illustration of London’s growth and maturation as a writer. As Labor (1994) observes: «To compare the two versions is itself an instructive lesson in what distinguished a great work of literary art from a good children’s story.»[A]

Other stories from the Klondike period include: «All Gold Canyon», about a battle between a gold prospector and a claim jumper; «The Law of Life», about an aging American Indian man abandoned by his tribe and left to die; «Love of Life», about a trek by a prospector across the Canadian tundra; «To the Man on Trail,» which tells the story of a prospector fleeing the Mounted Police in a sled race, and raises the question of the contrast between written law and morality; and «An Odyssey of the North,» which raises questions of conditional morality, and paints a sympathetic portrait of a man of mixed White and Aleut ancestry.

London was a boxing fan and an avid amateur boxer. «A Piece of Steak» is a tale about a match between older and younger boxers. It contrasts the differing experiences of youth and age but also raises the social question of the treatment of aging workers. «The Mexican» combines boxing with a social theme, as a young Mexican endures an unfair fight and ethnic prejudice to earn money with which to aid the revolution.

Several of London’s stories would today be classified as science fiction. «The Unparalleled Invasion» describes germ warfare against China; «Goliath» is about an irresistible energy weapon; «The Shadow and the Flash» is a tale about two brothers who take different routes to achieving invisibility; «A Relic of the Pliocene» is a tall tale about an encounter of a modern-day man with a mammoth. «The Red One» is a late story from a period when London was intrigued by the theories of the psychiatrist and writer Jung. It tells of an island tribe held in thrall by an extraterrestrial object.

Some nineteen original collections of short stories were published during London’s brief life or shortly after his death. There have been several posthumous anthologies drawn from this pool of stories. Many of these stories were located in the Klondike and the Pacific. A collection of Jack London’s San Francisco Stories was published in October 2010 by Sydney Samizdat Press.[100]

Novels

London’s most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden.[101]

In a letter dated December 27, 1901, London’s Macmillan publisher George Platt Brett, Sr., said «he believed Jack’s fiction represented ‘the very best kind of work’ done in America.»[94]

Critic Maxwell Geismar called The Call of the Wild «a beautiful prose poem»; editor Franklin Walker said that it «belongs on a shelf with Walden and Huckleberry Finn«; and novelist E.L. Doctorow called it «a mordant parable … his masterpiece.»[citation needed]

The historian Dale L. Walker[99] commented:

Jack London was an uncomfortable novelist, that form too long for his natural impatience and the quickness of his mind. His novels, even the best of them, are hugely flawed.

Some critics have said that his novels are episodic and resemble linked short stories. Dale L. Walker writes:

The Star Rover, that magnificent experiment, is actually a series of short stories connected by a unifying device … Smoke Bellew is a series of stories bound together in a novel-like form by their reappearing protagonist, Kit Bellew; and John Barleycorn … is a synoptic series of short episodes.[99]

Ambrose Bierce said of The Sea-Wolf that «the great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen … the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime.» However, he noted, «The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful.»[102]

The Iron Heel is an example of a dystopian novel that anticipates and influenced George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.[103] London’s socialist politics are explicitly on display here. The Iron Heel meets the contemporary definition of soft science fiction. The Star Rover (1915) is also science fiction.

Apocrypha

Jack London Credo

London’s literary executor, Irving Shepard, quoted a Jack London Credo in an introduction to a 1956 collection of London stories:

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

The biographer Stasz notes that the passage «has many marks of London’s style» but the only line that could be safely attributed to London was the first.[104] The words Shepard quoted were from a story in the San Francisco Bulletin, December 2, 1916, by journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who visited the ranch just weeks before London’s death. Stasz notes, «Even more so than today journalists’ quotes were unreliable or even sheer inventions,» and says no direct source in London’s writings has been found. However, at least one line, according to Stasz, is authentic, being referenced by London and written in his own hand in the autograph book of Australian suffragette Vida Goldstein:

Dear Miss Goldstein:–
Seven years ago I wrote you that I’d rather be ashes than dust. I still subscribe to that sentiment.
Sincerely yours,
Jack London
Jan. 13, 1909[105]

In his short story «By The Turtles of Tasman», a character, defending her «ne’er-do-well grasshopperish father» to her «antlike uncle», says: «… my father has been a king. He has lived …. Have you lived merely to live? Are you afraid to die? 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. When you are dust, my father will be ashes.»

«The Scab»

A short diatribe on «The Scab» is often quoted within the U.S. labor movement and frequently attributed to London. It opens:

After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and Angels weep in Heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out….[106]

In 1913 and 1914, a number of newspapers printed the first three sentences with varying terms used instead of «scab», such as
«knocker»,[107][108]
«stool pigeon»[109]
or «scandal monger».[110]

This passage as given above was the subject of a 1974 Supreme Court case, Letter Carriers v. Austin,[111] in which Justice Thurgood Marshall referred to it as «a well-known piece of trade union literature, generally attributed to author Jack London». A union newsletter had published a «list of scabs,» which was granted to be factual and therefore not libelous, but then went on to quote the passage as the «definition of a scab». The case turned on the question of whether the «definition» was defamatory. The court ruled that «Jack London’s… ‘definition of a scab’ is merely rhetorical hyperbole, a lusty and imaginative expression of the contempt felt by union members towards those who refuse to join», and as such was not libelous and was protected under the First Amendment.[106]

Despite being frequently attributed to London, the passage does not appear at all in the extensive collection of his writings at Sonoma State University’s website. However, in his book War of the Classes he published a 1903 speech titled «The Scab»,[112] which gave a much more balanced view of the topic:

The laborer who gives more time or strength or skill for the same wage than another, or equal time or strength or skill for a less wage, is a scab. The generousness on his part is hurtful to his fellow-laborers, for it compels them to an equal generousness which is not to their liking, and which gives them less of food and shelter. But a word may be said for the scab. Just as his act makes his rivals compulsorily generous, so do they, by fortune of birth and training, make compulsory his act of generousness.

[…]

Nobody desires to scab, to give most for least. The ambition of every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the ambitious individuals. But in its most salient aspect, that of the struggle over the division of the joint product, it is no longer a battle between individuals, but between groups of individuals. Capital and labor apply themselves to raw material, make something useful out of it, add to its value, and then proceed to quarrel over the division of the added value. Neither cares to give most for least. Each is intent on giving less than the other and on receiving more.

Publications

Source unless otherwise specified: Williams

Novels

  • The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902)
  • A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
  • The Call of the Wild (1903)
  • The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903)
    (published anonymously, co-authored with Anna Strunsky)
  • The Sea-Wolf (1904)
  • The Game (1905)
  • White Fang (1906)
  • Before Adam (1907)
  • The Iron Heel (1908)
  • Martin Eden (1909)
  • Burning Daylight (1910)
  • Adventure (1911)
  • The Scarlet Plague (1912)
  • A Son of the Sun (1912)
  • The Abysmal Brute (1913)
  • The Valley of the Moon (1913)
  • The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914)
  • The Star Rover (1915)
    (published in England as The Jacket)
  • The Little Lady of the Big House (1916)
  • Jerry of the Islands (1917)
  • Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917)
  • Hearts of Three (1920)
    (novelization of a script by Charles Goddard)
  • The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963)
    (left half-finished, completed by Robert L. Fish)

Short story collections

  • Son of the Wolf (1900)
  • Chris Farrington, Able Seaman (1901)
  • The God of His Fathers & Other Stories (1901)[113]
  • Children of the Frost (1902)
  • The Faith of Men and Other Stories (1904)[113]
  • Tales of the Fish Patrol (1906)
  • Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906)[113]
  • Love of Life and Other Stories (1907)[113]
  • Lost Face (1910)
  • South Sea Tales (1911)
  • When God Laughs and Other Stories (1911)[113]
  • The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii (1912)
  • Smoke Bellew (1912)
  • A Son of the Sun (1912)[113]
  • The Night Born (1913)[113]
  • The Strength of the Strong (1914)[113]
  • The Turtles of Tasman (1916)
  • The Human Drift (1917)[113]
  • The Red One (1918)[113]
  • On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (1922)[113]

Autobiographical memoirs

  • The Road (1907)
  • The Cruise of the Snark (1911)
  • John Barleycorn (1913)

Non-fiction and essays

  • Through the Rapids on the Way to the Klondike (1899)
  • From Dawson to the Sea (1899)
  • What Communities Lose by the Competitive System (1900)
  • The Impossibility of War (1900)
  • Phenomena of Literary Evolution (1900)
  • A Letter to Houghton Mifflin Co. (1900)
  • Husky, Wolf Dog of the North (1900)
  • Editorial Crimes – A Protest (1901)
  • Again the Literary Aspirant (1902)
  • The People of the Abyss (1903)
  • How I Became a Socialist (1903)[114]
  • War of the Classes (1905)[113]
  • The Story of an Eyewitness (1906)
  • A Letter to Woman’s Home Companion (1906)
  • «The Lepers of Molokai» in Woman’s Home Companion (1908)[115]
  • «The Nature Man» in Woman’s Home Companion (1908)[116]
  • «The High Seat of Abundance» in Woman’s Home Companion (1908)[117]
  • Revolution, and other Essays (1910)
  • Mexico’s Army and Ours (1914)
  • Lawgivers (1914)
  • Our Adventures in Tampico (1914)
  • Stalking the Pestilence (1914)
  • The Red Game of War (1914)
  • The Trouble Makers of Mexico (1914)
  • With Funston’s Men (1914)

Plays

  • Theft (1910)
  • Daughters of the Rich: A One Act Play (1915)
  • The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play (1916)

Poetry

  • A Heart (1899)
  • Abalone Song (1913)
  • And Some Night (1914)
  • Ballade of the False Lover (1914)
  • Cupid’s Deal (1913)
  • Daybreak (1901)
  • Effusion (1901)
  • George Sterling (1913)
  • Gold (1915)
  • He Chortled with Glee (1899)
  • He Never Tried Again (1912)
  • His Trip to Hades (1913)
  • Homeland (1914)
  • Hors de Saison (1913)
  • If I Were God (1899)
  • In a Year (1901)
  • In and Out (1911)
  • Je Vis en Espoir (1897)
  • Memory (1913)
  • Moods (1913)
  • My Confession (1912)
  • My Little Palmist (1914)
  • Of Man of the Future (1915)
  • Oh You Everybody’s Girl (19)
  • On the Face of the Earth You are the One (1915)
  • Rainbows End (1914)
  • Republican Rallying Song (1916)
  • Sonnet (1901)
  • The Gift of God (1905)
  • The Klondyker’s Dream (1914)
  • The Lover’s Liturgy (1913)
  • The Mammon Worshippers (1911)
  • The Republican Battle-Hymn (1905)
  • The Return of Ulysses (1915)
  • The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star (1916)
  • The Socialist’s Dream (1912)
  • The Song of the Flames (1903)
  • The Way of War (1906)
  • The Worker and the Tramp (1911)
  • Tick! Tick! Tick! (1915)
  • Too Late (1912)
  • Weasel Thieves (1913)
  • When All the World Shouted my Name (1905)
  • Where the Rainbow Fell (1902)
  • Your Kiss (1914)

Short stories

  • «Typhoon off the Coast of Japan» (November 12, 1893)
  • » ‘Frisco Kid’s’ Story» (February 15, 1895)
  • «Sakaicho, Hona Asi and Hakadaki» (April 19, 1895)
  • «Night’s Swim In Yeddo Bay» (May 27, 1895)
  • «Who Believes in Ghosts!» (October 21, 1895)
  • «And ‘Frisco Kid Came Back» (November 4, 1895)
  • «One More Unfortunate» (December 18, 1895)
  • «O Haru» (1993; written in April 1897)
  • «The Mahatma’s Little Joke» (1993; written in May 1897)
  • «The Strange Experience of a Misogynist» (1993; written between May and September 1897), originally titled «The Misogynist»
  • «Two Gold Bricks» (September 1897)
  • «The Plague Ship» (1993; written between September and December 1897)
  • «The Devil’s Dice Box» (December 1976; written in September 1898)
  • «The Test: A Clondyke Wooing» (1983; written in September 1898)
  • «A Klondike Christmas» (1983; written in November 1898)
  • «A Dream Image» (1898)
  • «To the Man on Trail: A Klondike Christmas» (January 1899)
  • «The White Silence» (February 1899)
  • «The Son of the Wolf» (April 1899)
  • «The Men of Forty-Mile» (May 1899)
  • «A Thousand Deaths» (May 1899)
  • «An Old Soldier’s Story» (May 20, 1899)
  • «In a Far Country» (June 1899)
  • «The Priestly Prerogative» (July 1899)
  • «The Handsome Cabin Boy» (July 1899)
  • «The Wife of a King» (August 1899)
  • «In the Time of Prince Charley» (September 1899)
  • «Old Baldy» (September 16, 1899)
  • «The Grilling of Loren Ellery» (September 24, 1899)
  • «The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone» (November 1899)
  • «The King of Mazy May» (November 30, 1899)
  • «The Wisdom of the Trail» (December 1899)
  • «A Daughter of the Aurora» (December 24, 1899)
  • «Pluck and Pertinacity» (1899)
  • «An Odyssey of the North» (January 1900)
  • «A Lesson in Heraldry» (March 1900)
  • «The End of the Chapter» (June 9, 1900)
  • «Uri Bram’s God» (June 24, 1900)
  • «Even unto Death» (July 28, 1900)
  • «Grit of Women» (August 1900)
  • «Jan the Unrepentant» (August 1900)
  • «The Man with the Gash» (September 1900)
  • «Their Alcove» (September 1900)
  • «Housekeeping in the Klondike» (September 16, 1900)
  • «The Proper ‘Girlie’ » (October 1900)
  • «Thanksgiving on Slav Creek» (November 24, 1900)
  • «Where the Trail Forks» (December 1900)
  • «The Great Interrogation» (December 1900)
  • «Semper Idem» (December 1900)
  • «A Northland Miracle» (November 4, 1926; written in 1900)
  • «Dutch Courage» (November 29, 1900)
  • «A Relic of the Pliocene» (January 12, 1901)
  • «The Law of Life» (March 1901)
  • «Siwash» (March 1901)
  • «The Lost Poacher» (March 14, 1901)
  • «At the Rainbow’s End» (March 24, 1901)
  • «The God of His Fathers» (May 1901)
  • «The Scorn of Woman» (May 1901)
  • «The Minions of Midas» (May 1901)
  • «Chris Farrington: Able Seaman» (May 23, 1901)
  • «A Hyperborean Brew» (July 1901)
  • «Bald Face» (September 6, 1901)
  • «Keesh, Son of Keesh» (January 1902)
  • «An Adventure in the Upper Sea» (May 1902)
  • «To Build a Fire» (May 29, 1902, revised August 1908)
  • «Diable — A Dog» (June 1902), renamed Bâtard in 1904
  • «To Repel Boarders» (June 1902)
  • «The ‘Fuzziness’ of Hoockla-Heen» (July 3, 1902)
  • «Moon-Face» (July 21, 1902)
  • «Nam-Bok, the Liar» (August 1902)
  • «Li Wan the Fair» (August 1902)
  • «The Master of Mystery» (September 1902)
  • «In the Forests of the North» (September 1902)
  • «The Sunlanders» (September 1902)
  • «The Death of Ligoun» (September 1902)
  • «The Story of Jees Uck» (September 1902)
  • «The Sickness of Lone Chief» (October 1902)
  • «The League of the Old Men» (October 4, 1902)
  • «Lost Face» (1902)
  • «In Yeddo Bay» (February 1903)
  • «The One Thousand Dozen» (March 1903)
  • «The Shadow and the Flash» (June 1903)
  • “The Faith of Men» (June 1903)
  • «The Leopard Man’s Story» (August 1903)
  • «The Marriage of Lit-Lit» (September 1903)
  • «Local Color» (October 1903)
  • «Too Much Gold» (December 1903)
  • «Amateur Night» (December 1903)
  • «The Dominant Primordial Beast» (1903)
  • «Keesh, The Bear Hunter» (January 1904); often reprinted as «The Story of Keesh»
  • «The Banks of the Sacramento» (March 17, 1904)
  • «White and Yellow» (February 16, 1905)
  • «The King of the Greeks» (March 2, 1905)
  • «A Raid on the Oyster Pirates» (March 16, 1905)
  • «The Siege of the ‘Lancashire Queen’ ” (March 30, 1905)
  • «Charley’s Coup” (April 13, 1905)
  • «Demetrios Contos” (April 27, 1905)
  • «Yellow Handkerchief” (May 11, 1905)
  • «All Gold Cañon» (November 1905)
  • «Love of Life» (December 1905)
  • «The Sun-Dog Trail» (December 1905)
  • «A Nose for the King» (March 1906)
  • «Planchette» (June 1906)
  • «The Unexpected» (August 1906)
  • «Brown Wolf» (August 1906)
  • «The Apostate» (September 1906)
  • «Up the Slide» (October 25, 1906)
  • «A Wicked Woman» (November 1906)
  • «The White Man’s Way» (November 4, 1906)
  • «The Wit of Porportuk» (December 1906)
  • «When God Laughs» (January 1907)
  • «Just Meat» (March 1907)
  • «Created He Them» (April 1907)
  • «Morganson’s Finish» (May 1907)
  • «A Day’s Lodging» (May 25, 1907)
  • «Negore the Coward» (September 1907)
  • «Chased by the Trail» (September 26, 1907)
  • «The Passing of Marcus O’Brien» (January 1908)
  • «Trust» (January 1908)
  • «That Spot» (February 1908)
  • «Flush of Gold» (April 1908)
  • «Make Westing» (April 1908)
  • «The Enemy of All the World» (October 1908)
  • «Aloha Oe» (December 1908)
  • «A Curious Fragment» (December 10, 1908)
  • «The Dream of Debs» (January 1909)
  • «The House of Mapuhi» (January 1909)
  • «The Seed of McCoy» (April 1909)
  • «The Madness of John Harned» (May 1909)
  • «South of the Slot» (May 22, 1909)
  • «Good-by, Jack» (June 1909)
  • «The Chinago» (June 26, 1909)
  • «The Sheriff of Kona» (August 1909)
  • «The Heathen» (September 1909)
  • «A Piece of Steak» (November 20, 1909)
  • «Koolau the Leper» (December 1909)
  • «Mauki» (December 1909)
  • “The Mission of John Starhurst” (December 29, 1909); reprinted as «The Whale Tooth»
  • «Samuel» (1909)
  • «Chun An Chun» (Spring 1910)
  • «The Terrible Solomons» (March 1910)
  • «The Inevitable White Man» (May 14, 1910)
  • «The Unparalleled Invasion» (July 1910)
  • «Winged Blackmail» (September 1910)
  • «When the World was Young» (September 10, 1910)
  • «The Benefit of the Doubt» (November 12, 1910)
  • «Under the Deck Awnings» (November 19, 1910)
  • «Yah! Yah! Yah!» (December 1910)
  • «The House of Pride» (December 1910)
  • «To Kill a Man» (December 10, 1910)
  • «Bunches of Knuckles» (December 18, 1910)
  • «Goliath» (1910)
  • «The ‘Francis Spaight’ » (January 1911)
  • «The Hobo and the Fairy» (February 11, 1911)
  • «The Strength of the Strong» (March 1911)
  • «The Eternity of Forms» (March 1911)
  • «A Son of the Sun» (May 27. 1911)
  • «The Taste of the Meat» (June 1911)
  • “The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn» (June 24, 1911)
  • «The Meat» (July 1911)
  • “The Night Born» (July 1911)
  • «War» (July 29, 1911)
  • «The Goat Man of Fuatino» (July 20, 1911)
  • “The Stampede to Squaw Creek» (August 1911)
  • «The Mexican» (August 19, 1911)
  • «Shorty Dreams» (September 1911)
  • «A Little Account with Swithin Hall» (September 2, 1911)
  • «A Goboto Night» (September 30, 1911)
  • «The Man on the Other Bank» (October 1911)
  • «The Pearls of Parlay» (October 14, 1911)
  • «The Race for Number Three» (November 1911)
  • «The End of the Story» (November 1911)
  • » The Jokers of New Gibbon» (November 11, 1911)
  • «By the Turtles of Tasman» (November 19, 1911)
  • «The Little Man» (December 1911)
  • «The Unmasking of the Cad» (December 23, 1911)
  • «The Hanging of Cultus George» (January 1912)
  • «The Mistake of Creation» (February 1912)
  • «A Flutter in Eggs» (March 1912)
  • «The Sea-Farmer» (March 1912)
  • «The Feathers of the Sun» (March 9, 1912)
  • «The Town-Site of Tra-Lee» (April 1912)
  • «Wonder of Woman» (May 1912)
  • «The Prodigal Father» (May 1912)
  • «The Scarlet Plague» (June 1912)
  • «The Captain of the Susan Drew» (December 1, 1912)
  • «Samuel» (May 1913)
  • «The Sea-Gangsters» (November 1913)
  • «Told in the Drooling Ward» (June 1914)
  • «The Hussy» (December 1916)
  • «Man of Mine» (February 1917)
  • «Like Argus of the Ancient Times» (March 1917)
  • «Jerry of the Islands» (1917)
  • «When Alice Told Her Soul» (March 1918)
  • «The Princess» (June 1918)
  • «The Tears of Ah Kim» (July 1918)
  • «The Water Baby» (September 1918)
  • «The Red One» (October 1918)
  • «In the Cave of the Dead» (November 1918)
  • «Shin-Bones» (1918)
  • «On the Makaloa Mat» (March 1919)
  • «The Bones of Kahekili» (July 1919)
  • » Whose Business Is to Live» (September 1922)
  • «Eyes of Asia» (September 1924)

Legacy and honors

  • Mount London, also known as Boundary Peak 100, on the Alaska-British Columbia boundary, in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, is named for him.[118]
  • Jack London Square on the waterfront of Oakland, California was named for him.
  • He was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 25¢ Great Americans series postage stamp released on January 11, 1986.
  • Jack London Lake (Russian: Озеро Джека Лондона), a mountain lake located in the upper reaches of the Kolyma River in Yagodninsky district of Magadan Oblast.
  • Fictional portrayals of London include Michael O’Shea in the 1943 film Jack London, Jeff East in the 1980 film Klondike Fever, Michael Aron in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Time’s Arrow from 1992, Aaron Ashmore in the Murdoch Mysteries episode «Murdoch of the Klondike» from 2012, and Johnny Simmons in the 2014 miniseries Klondike.

See also

  • List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards
  • The story of eyewitness by Jack London [119]

Notes

  1. ^ a b The 1908 version of «To Build a Fire» is available on Wikisource in two places: «To Build a Fire» (Century Magazine) and «To Build a Fire» (in Lost Face – 1910). The 1902 version may be found at the following external link: To Build a Fire (The Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center, Sonoma State University).

References

  1. ^ Reesman 2009, p. 23.
  2. ^ «London, Jack». Encyclopædia Britannica Library Edition. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  3. ^ Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
  4. ^ London 1939, p. 12.
  5. ^ New York Times November 23, 1916.
  6. ^ Haley, James (October 4, 2011). Wolf: The Lives of Jack London. Basic Books. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-0465025039.
  7. ^ (1910) «Specialty of Short-story Writing,» The Writer, XXII, January–December 1910, p. 9: «There are eight American writers who can get $1000 for a short story—Robert W. Chambers, Richard Harding Davis, Jack London, O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, John Fox, Jr., Owen Wister, and Mrs. Burnett.» $1,000 in 1910 dollars is roughly equivalent to $29,000 today
  8. ^ a b Swift, John N. «Jack London’s ‘The Unparalleled Invasion’: Germ Warfare, Eugenics, and Cultural Hygiene.» American Literary Realism, vol. 35, no. 1, 2002, pp. 59–71. JSTOR 27747084.
  9. ^ a b Hensley, John R. «Eugenics and Social Darwinism in Stanley Waterloo’s ‘The Story of Ab’ and Jack London’s ‘Before Adam.’» Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002, pp. 23–37. JSTOR 23415006.
  10. ^ «UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021». United Press International. January 12, 2021. Archived from the original on January 29, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2021. …novelist Jack London in 1876…
  11. ^ Wellman, Joshua Wyman Descendants of Thomas Wellman (1918) Arthur Holbrook Wellman, Boston, p. 227
  12. ^ «The Book of Jack London». The World of Jack London. Archived from the original on May 11, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  13. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 14: «What supports Flora’s naming Chaney as the father of her son are, first, the indisputable fact of their cohabiting at the time of his conception, and second, the absence of any suggestion on the part of her associates that another man could have been responsible… [but] unless DNA evidence is introduced, whether or not William Chaney was the biological father of Jack London cannot be decided…. Chaney would, however, be considered by her son and his children as their ancestor.»
  14. ^ «Before Adam (Paperback) | The Book Table». www.booktable.net. Retrieved February 12, 2020.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ a b c Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London’s Racial Lives: A Critical Biography, University of Georgia Press, 2009, pp. 323–24
  16. ^ Kershaw 1999, pp. 53–54.
  17. ^ Ouida (July 26, 1875). «Signa. A story». London : Chapman & Hall – via Internet Archive.
  18. ^ Ouida (July 26, 1875). «Signa. A story». London : Chapman & Hall – via Internet Archive.
  19. ^ London, Jack (1917) «Eight Factors of Literary Success», in Labor (1994), p. 512. «In answer to your question as to the greatest factors of my literary success, I will state that I consider them to be: Vast good luck. Good health; good brain; good mental and muscular correlation. Poverty. Reading Ouida’s Signa at eight years of age. The influence of Herbert Spencer’s Philosophy of Style. Because I got started twenty years before the fellows who are trying to start today.»
  20. ^ «State’s first poet laureate remembered at Jack London». Sonoma Index Tribune. August 22, 2016. Archived from the original on February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  21. ^
    • Jack London. John Barleycorn at Project Gutenberg Chapters VII, VIII describe his stealing of Mamie, the «Queen of the Oyster Pirates»: «The Queen asked me to row her ashore in my skiff…Nor did I understand Spider’s grinning side-remark to me: «Gee! There’s nothin’ slow about YOU.» How could it possibly enter my boy’s head that a grizzled man of fifty should be jealous of me?» «And how was I to guess that the story of how the Queen had thrown him down on his own boat, the moment I hove in sight, was already the gleeful gossip of the water-front?

  22. ^ London 1939, p. 41.
  23. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 37: «It was said on the waterfront that Jack had taken on a mistress… Evidently Jack believed the myth himself at times… Jack met Mamie aboard the Razzle-Dazzle when he first approached French Frank about its purchase. Mamie was aboard on a visit with her sister Tess and her chaperone, Miss Hadley. It hardly seems likely that someone who required a chaperone on Saturday would move aboard as mistress on Monday.»
  24. ^ Charmian K. London (August 1, 1922). «The First Story Written for Publication». Sonoma County, California: JackLondons.net. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013.
  25. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 67.
  26. ^ MacGillivray, Don (2009). Captain Alex MacLean. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0774814713. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  27. ^ MacGillivray, Don (2008). Captain Alex MacLean (PDF). ISBN 978-0774814713. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  28. ^ «The legends of Oakland’s oldest bar, Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon». Oakland North. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  29. ^ «Footnote 55 to «Bâtard»«. JackLondons.net. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2013. First published as «Diable – A Dog». The Cosmopolitan, v. 33 (June 1902), pp. 218–26. [FM]
    This tale was titled «Bâtard» in 1904 when included in FM. The same story, with minor changes, was also called «Bâtard» when it appeared in the Sunday Illustrated Magazine of the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), September 28, 1913, pp. 7–11. London received $141.25 for this story on May 27, 1902.
  30. ^ «The 100 best novels: No 35 – The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)» Retrieved July 22, 2015
  31. ^ «Best Dog Story Ever Written: Call of the Wild» Archived April 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, excerpted from Kingman 1979
  32. ^ Hamilton (1986) (as cited by other sources)
  33. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 61: «Both acknowledged… that they were not marrying out of love»
  34. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 98.
  35. ^ Reesman 2010, p 12
  36. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 66: «Mommy Girl and Daddy Boy»
  37. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 121.
  38. ^ Noel 1940, p. 150, «She’s devoted to purity…»
  39. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 80 («devoted to purity… code words…»)
  40. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 139.
  41. ^ Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. The Scarecrow Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
  42. ^ London & Taylor 1987, p. 394.
  43. ^ Wichlan 2007, p. 131.
  44. ^ Labor 2013
  45. ^ «The Sailing of the Snark», by Allan Dunn, Sunset, May 1907.
  46. ^ a b Day 1996, pp. 113–19.
  47. ^ London 2003, p. 59: copy of «John Barleycorn» inscribed «Dear Mate-Woman: You know. You have helped me bury the Long Sickness and the White Logic.» Numerous other examples in same source.
  48. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 124.
  49. ^ Stasz 1999, p. 112.
  50. ^ Kershaw 1999, p. 133.
  51. ^ Noel 1940, p. 146.
  52. ^ Walker, Dale; Reesman, Jeanne, eds. (1999). «A Selection of Letters to Charmain Kittredge». No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804736367. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  53. ^ Jack London «Story Of An Eyewitness». California Department of Parks & Recreation.
  54. ^ Stasz, Clarice (2013). Jack London’s Women. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-1625340658. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  55. ^ Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. Oxford University, 1986.
  56. ^ Joseph Theroux. «They Came to Write in Hawai’i». Spirit of Aloha (Aloha Airlines) March/April 2007. Archived from the original on January 21, 2008. He said, «Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.» …His last magazine piece was titled «My Hawaiian Aloha»* [and] his final, unfinished novel, Eyes of Asia, was set in Hawai’i. (Jack London. «My Hawaiian Aloha». *From Stories of Hawai’i, Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, 1916. Reprinted with permission in Spirit of Aloha, November/December 2006. Archived from the original on January 21, 2008.)
  57. ^ Beers, Diane L. (2006). For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. pp. 105–06. ISBN 0804010870.
  58. ^ Beers, Diane L. (2006). For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. pp. 106–07. ISBN 0804010870.
  59. ^ Beers, Diane L. (2006). For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0804010870.
  60. ^ «On This Day: November 23, 1916: Obituary – Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch». The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  61. ^ Jack London (1911). The Cruise of the Snark. Macmillan.
  62. ^ «Marin County Tocsin». contentdm.marinlibrary.org. Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  63. ^ McConahey, Meg (July 22, 2022). «Was Jack London a drug addict? New technology examines old mysteries». Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  64. ^ Columbia Encyclopedia «Jack London», «Beset in his later years by alcoholism and financial difficulties, London committed suicide at the age of 40.»
  65. ^ The Jack London Online Collection: Jack London’s death certificate.
  66. ^ The Jack London Online Collection: Biography.
  67. ^ «Did Jack London Commit Suicide?» Archived September 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, The World of Jack London
  68. ^ «Martin Eden by Jack London | Goodreads». Goodreads: Martin Eden.
  69. ^ admin (June 5, 2019). «Jack London: Martin Eden — by Franklin Walker». Scraps from the loft. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  70. ^ «Jack London letters to Sinclair Lewis, dated September through December 1910» (PDF). Utah State University University Libraries Digital Exhibits. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  71. ^ «The Literary Zoo». Life. Vol. 49. January–June 1907. p. 130.
  72. ^ «The Retriever and the Dynamite Stick — A Remarkable Coincidence». The New York Times. The New York Times Company. August 16, 1902. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  73. ^ «Young, Everton Ryerson». Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  74. ^ «Memorable Manitobans: Egerton Ryerson Young (1840–1909)». The Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  75. ^ «Is Jack London a Plagiarist?». The Literary Digest. 34: 337. 1907.
  76. ^ Kingman 1979, p. 118.
  77. ^ Letter to «The Bookman,» April 10, 1906, quoted in full in Jack London; Dale L. Walker; Jeanne Campbell Reesman (2000). No mentor but myself: Jack London on writing and writers. Stanford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0804736350. «The World, however, did not charge me with plagiarism. It charged me with identity of time and situation. Certainly I plead guilty, and I am glad that the World was intelligent enough not to charge me with identity of language.»
  78. ^ Jack London; Dale L. Walker; Jeanne Campbell Reesman (2000). No mentor but myself: Jack London on writing and writers. Stanford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0804736350. «The controversy with Frank Harris began in the Vanity Fair issue of April 14, 1909, in an article by Harris entitled ‘How Mr. Jack London Writes a Novel.’ Using parallel columns, Harris demonstrated that a portion of his article, ‘The Bishop of London and Public Morality,’ which appeared in a British periodical, The Candid Friend, on May 25, 1901, had been used almost word-for-word in his 1908 novel, The Iron Heel
  79. ^ Stewart Gabel (2012). Jack London: a Man in Search of Meaning: A Jungian Perspective. AuthorHouse. p. 14. ISBN 978-1477283332. When he was tramping, arrested and jailed for one month for vagrancy at about 19 years of age, he listed «atheist» as his religion on the necessary forms (Kershaw, 1997).
  80. ^ Who’s Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists. Barricade Books (2000), ISBN 978-1569801581
  81. ^ «War of the Classes: How I Became a Socialist». london.sonoma.edu. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  82. ^ See Labor (1994) p. 546 for one example, a letter from London to William E. Walling dated November 30, 1909.
  83. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 100.
  84. ^ Stasz 2001, p. 156.
  85. ^ Kershaw 1999, p. 245.
  86. ^ Starr, Kevin (1973). Americans and the California Dream. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195016440. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  87. ^ The Jack London Online Collection: The Yellow Peril.
  88. ^ The Jack London Online Collection: The Unparalleled Invasion.
  89. ^ «Jack London’s War» Archived October 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Dale L. Walker, The World of Jack London. «According to London’s reportage, the Russians were «sluggish» in battle, while «The Japanese understand the utility of things. Reserves they consider should be used not only to strengthen the line…but in the moment of victory to clinch victory hard and fast…Verily, nothing short of a miracle can wreck a plan they have once started and put into execution.»»
  90. ^ Labor, Earle, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard: The Letters of Jack London: Volume Three: 1913–1916, Stanford University Press 1988, p. 1219, Letter to Japanese-American Commercial Weekly, August 25, 1913: «the races of mankind will grow up and laugh [at] their childish quarrels…»
  91. ^ Lundberg.
  92. ^ «A True Champion Vs. The ‘Great White Hope’«. NPR. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  93. ^ Leonard, Thomas C., Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, Princeton University Press, Princeton Univ. Press, 2016, p. 114
  94. ^ a b Kershaw 1999, p. 109.
  95. ^ Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell, JHU Press, October 6, 2008, p. 55.
  96. ^ Williams, Jay, Author Under Sail, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1014, p. 294.
  97. ^ Craid, Layne Parish, «Sex and Science in London’s America,» in Williams, Jay, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Jack London, Oxford Univ. Press, 2017, pp. 340–41.
  98. ^ London, Charmian, Our Hawaii: Islands and Islanders, Macmillan, 1922, p. 24.
  99. ^ a b c Dale L. Walker, «Jack London: The Stories» Archived October 25, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, The World of Jack London
  100. ^ Jack London: San Francisco Stories (Edited by Matthew Asprey; Preface by Rodger Jacobs)
  101. ^ These are the five novels selected by editor Donald Pizer for inclusion in the Library of America series.
  102. ^ Letters of Ambrose Bierce, ed. S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003
  103. ^ Orwell: the Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden, HarperCollins ISBN 978-0060921613
  104. ^ Jack London Online: FAQ, Credo.
  105. ^ The Jack London Online Collection: Credo.
  106. ^ a b Thurgood Marshall (June 25, 1974). «Letter Carriers v. Austin, 418 U.S. 264 (1974)». Retrieved May 23, 2006.
  107. ^ Callan, Claude, 1913, «Cracks at the Crowd», Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 30, 1913, p. 6: «Saith the Rule Review: ‘After God had finished making the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, He had some awful substance left, with which he made the knocker.’ Were it not for being irreverent, we would suggest that He was hard up for something to do when He made any of those pests you call his handiwork.»
  108. ^ «The Food for Your Think Tank», The Macon Daily Telegraph, August 23, 1914, p. 3
  109. ^ » Madame Gain is Found Guilty. Jury Decides Woman Conducted House of Ill Fame at the Clifton Hotel,» The Duluth News Tribune, February 5, 1914, p. 12.
  110. ^ «T. W. H.», (1914), «Review of the Masonic ‘Country’ Press: The Eastern Star» The New Age Magazine: A Monthly Publication Devoted to Freemasonry and Its Relation to Present Day Problems, published by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States; June 1917, p. 283: «Scandal Monger: After God had finished making the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, He had some awful substance left, with which He made a scandal monger. A scandal monger is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-sogged brain and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where other men have their hearts he carries a tumor of decayed principles. When the scandal monger comes down the street honest men turn their backs, the angels weep tears in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. —Anon»
  111. ^ Letter Carriers v. Austin, 418 U.S. 264 (1974).
  112. ^ «War of the Classes: The Scab». london.sonoma.edu. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  113. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The Jack London Online Collection: Writings.
  114. ^ «How I Became a Socialist. The Comrade: An illustrated socialist monthly. Volume II, No. 6, March, 1903: Jack London: Books». Amazon. September 9, 2009. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
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Bibliography

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  • London, Jack; Taylor, J. Golden (1987). A Literary history of the American West. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. ISBN 087565021X.
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  • «Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch». The New York Times. November 23, 1916. Retrieved September 22, 2011. Novelist is Found Unconscious from Uremia, and Expires after Eleven Hours. Wrote His Life of Toil—His Experience as Sailor Reflected in His Fiction—’Call of the Wild’ Gave Him His Fame.» ‘The New York Times,’ story datelined Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 22; appeared November 24, 1916, p. 13. States he died ‘at 7:45 o’clock tonight,’ and says he was ‘born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876.’

The Jack London Online Collection

  • «Jack London’s death certificate, from County Record’s Office, Sonoma Co., Nov. 22, 1916». The Jack London Online Collection. November 22, 1916. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • Stasz, Clarice (2001). «Jack [John Griffith] London». The Jack London Online Collection. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • «Revolution and Other Essays: The Yellow Peril». The Jack London Online Collection. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • «The Unparalleled Invasion». The Jack London Online Collection. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • «Jack London’s «Credo», Commentary by Clarice Stasz». The Jack London Online Collection. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • Roy Tennant and Clarice Stasz. «Jack London’s Writings». The Jack London Online Collection. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • Jacobs, Rodger (July 1999). «Running with the Wolves: Jack London, the Cult of Masculinity, and «Might is Right»«. Panik. Archived from the original on August 16, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • Williams, James. «Jack London’s Works by Date of Composition». The Jack London Online Collection. Archived from the original on August 16, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.

Further reading

  • Jacobs, Rodger (preface) (2010). Asprey, Matthew (ed.). Jack London: San Francisco Stories. Sydney: Sydney Samizdat Press. ISBN 978-1453840504.
  • Haley, James L. (2010). Wolf: The Lives of Jack London. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465004782.
  • Hamilton, David (1986). The Tools of My Trade: Annotated Books in Jack London’s Library. University of Washington. ISBN 0295961570.
  • Herron, Don (2004). The Barbaric Triumph: A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Robert E. Howard. Wildside Press. ISBN 0809515660.
  • Howard, Robert E. (1989). Robert E. Howard Selected Letters 1923–1930. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press. ISBN 0940884267.
  • Labor, Earle (2013). Jack London: An American Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374178482.
  • Labor, Earle, ed. (1994). The Portable Jack London. Viking Penguin. ISBN 0140179690.
  • London, Jack; Strunsky, Anna (2000) [1903]. The Kempton-Wace Letters. Czech Republic: Triality. ISBN 8090187684.
  • Lord, Glenn (1976). The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert E. Howard. West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher.
  • Oates, Joyce Carol (2013). The Accursed. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062231703.
  • Pizer, Donald, ed. (1982). Jack London: Novels and Stories. Library of America. ISBN 978-0940450059.
  • Pizer, Donald, ed. (1982). Jack London: Novels and Social Writing. Library of America. ISBN 978-0940450066.
  • Raskin, Jonah, ed. (2008). The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520255463.
  • Sinclair, Andrew (1977). Jack: A Biography of Jack London. United States: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060138998.
  • Starr, Kevin (1986) [1973]. Americans and the California Dream 1850–1915. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195042336.
  • Stasz, Clarice (1988). American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-0312021603.
  • Wichlan, Daniel (2014). The Complete Poetry of Jack London. 2nd. ed. New London, CT: Little Tree.
  • Williams, Jay (2014). Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1893–1902. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska.
  • Williams, Jay, ed. (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Jack London. Oxford Univ. Press.

External links

  • Works by Jack London in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
  • Works by Jack London at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by Jack (John Griffith) London at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Works by or about Jack London at Internet Archive
  • Works by Jack London at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  
  • Works by Jack London at Open Library  
  • Western American Literature Journal: Jack London
  • The Jack London Online Collection Site featuring information about Jack London’s life and work, and a collection of his writings.
  • The World of Jack London Biographical information and writings
  • Jack London State Historic Park
  • The Huntingon Library’s Jack London Archive
  • Guide to the Jack London Papers at The Bancroft Library
  • Jack London Collection at Sonoma State University Library
  • Jack London Stories, scanned from original magazines, including the original artwork
  • 5 short radio episodes from Jack London’s writing at California Legacy Project
  • Howser, Huell (December 10, 1994). «Jack London – California’s Gold (502)». California’s Gold. Chapman University Huell Howser Archive.
  • Jack London Personal Manuscripts
  • «The Life and Legacy of Jack London». C-Span TV. September 19, 2016.

The Biography of Jack London (easy)

Jack London took his place in American literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time, the library shelves and bookshops of America were already full of books by well-known authors.

But Jack London’s stories were new stories: his heroes were not like heroes in books by famous authors, and the pictures he painted were not the same as theirs. The men in his books live a difficult life, a life full of danger.

In the terrible world that Jack London shows us in his stories, a man who makes even the smallest mistake must fall and die in the snow. But his people are afraid of nothing, and nothing can stop them.

People in books by London never lose hope: they never stop fighting for life, even when the end seems near. That is the lesson every man and woman must learn – that in everything we want and everything we do, if we do not lose hope, we must and will win.

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Jack London’s credo

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them, I shall use my time.»

– Jack London 1876-1916

Кредо Джека Лондона (в переводе на русский язык)
Я предпочел бы гореть ярким пламенем, а не задыхаться от пыли. Я бы предпочел быть сверкающим метеором, а не спящей и вечной планетой. Человек должен жить, а не существовать. Я не собираюсь тратить свои дни, пытаясь продлить свое существование. Я тороплюсь ЖИТЬ!

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Jack London’s life was not easy. And it was not long – he lived less than forty years. But he saw more and did more during those years than many other men see and do in almost a century.

Jack London was born in San Francisco, California, in 1876. His father was poor, and there were many other children in the family. They always needed money, and Jack, who was older than the other children, had to help as much as he could. When he was only eight years old, he was already selling newspapers and going to school at the same time. But after a few years, he had to leave school and go to work.

Jack London. The Biography and Literary WorksLike many other poor boys in California, he found work on the ships that went from America to the countries of the East, and to the islands of the South Seas. There he saw wonderful places: beautiful green islands in the endless blue sea, and high mountains that threw red fire into the black night sky. But the ships paid boys very little, and when Jack came back to California he had almost northing.

So he left home again, this time to look for work in the big cities of the United States, and in the great forests and on the great lakes and rivers of Canada. He never had a day’s rest and he worked from morning to night. But when the day’s work was over, he listens to the men’s jokes and their conversations about places and people, about workers and revolution.

When he came home again, Jack London was full of a new idea. He was going to become a writer. “I have been to such wonderful places and I have heard such interesting stories,” he thought. “I am sure they will be interesting to other people too.”

But to his surprise, when he tried to write, he couldn’t make the words tell the stories. His language was poor and it was full of mistakes, because he did not know grammar. “I never learned English,” he thought, “because I couldn’t go to school. But why can’t I go to school now? The pupils will be surprised when they see somebody so much older in the class room. But I’ll be ashamed when I can’t pronounce difficult words. But my memory isn’t bad, and if they can study physics and mathematics and biology, I can too. And I’ll learn English together with science!”

And he did! He learned from his teachers and from other pupils, but most of all, he learned from books. He read all the books on the shelves of the school library and the city library. He read all afternoon, and he sat half the night with a book or a textbook in front of him and a large dictionary at his side. As he read novels by well-known authors, he tried to notice the words they used and how they used them: he tried to discover the secrets of their art.

If you study English, find in the text and read aloud:
a) the sentences in the text about the places that Jack London visited:
b) the sentences that explain what is new in his stories:

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Jack London.  The Biography (part 2)

«I haven’t enough time to learn so slowly.»

Jack London

Jack London. The BiographyPupils went to high school for two years, but Jack London finished high school in three months. He even went to college for a short time, but then he decided not to continue. “I haven’t enough money to study,” he thought, “And I haven’t enough time to learn so slowly. I have always learned more from great thinkers than from lectures at college.”

Day after day, month after month, he wrote: short stories, poems, plays. But nobody noticed him: the magazines refused to publish his works. At first, Jack was helpless and angry, but then he said:” Perhaps they are right. I haven’t yet become a writer. But I haven’t lost this fight – no, I am only beginning.” Often he had no money, and he had to stop writing and look for work. But soon as he had some money, he stopped working and began to write again.

In 1896, when Jack London was twenty years old, gold was discovered in Alaska. The whole world suddenly became interested in this cold country, where almost nobody lived. Men who usually never went near a library began to go there, to study maps of the “new” country, its history and geography.

There were thousands and even millions of men in America who thought of Alaska, who wanted to goJack London. The Biography there, but who could not decide to leave their homes in the south. Jack London was not one of them. He bought a ticket on the first ship to the North. He wanted to see the life of the thousands of men who came to look for gold in the mountains and rivers. Perhaps only a few could find gold, but they all hoped to be the lucky man.

Like the other men who came to Alaska, Jack hadn’t enough food, and he had no vegetables or fruit. At first, he didn’t think about what he was eating, and he refused to think that he was not well. But at last he became seriously ill, and he had to come back home to San Francisco.

He came back without gold, but with something better the yellow metal: in his memory was the whole rich world of the Far North. His life there, his conversations with people he met and the stories they told him were enough for a whole library of books. He remembered everything, and now he knew how to write!

He began again. When he was twenty three, a small magazine agreed to publish his stories: soon, well-known, important magazines invited him to write for them.

Who can say why a writer becomes popular? At the end of the 19th century, book usually told about gentlemen in high hats and ladies in beautiful clothes, who always used the best language when they spoke. Jack London’s stories were about men who fought with animals and each other, who lived for months without daylight, and then for months without night, men who were left in the endless snow-fields until the wolves came….

Many ladies and gentlemen said: “This is not art!” But there were thousands and thousands who were afraid to know what happened to men in those terrible places, who understand and loved London’s books.

Jack London loved people and was sure that the man is strong and better than anything in the world.

THE  END

If you study English,
a) try to say what you have learnt about Jack London, his books and his characters
b) say if you like Jack London and why

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John Griffith «Jack» London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American writer. Джон Гриффит «Джек» Лондон (урождённый Джон Гриффит Чейни, 12 января 1876 — 22 ноября 1916) был американским писателем.
He lived in California, in the United States, but also spent a lot of time in Hawaii and Alaska. Он жил в Калифорнии, в США, но также провел много времени на Гавайях и Аляске.
He was a popular author, one of his most famous books is White Fang. Он был популярным писателем, одна из самых известных его книг — «Белый клык».
It is about a wild wolfdog and is written from the animal’s perspective. Она рассказывает о диком полуволке (наполовину собака, наполовину волк) и написана с точки зрения животного.
He is also well-known for his novel Martin Eden. Он также известен своим романом «Мартин Иден».
It is a partly autobiographical story about a young sailor who fell in love with a rich girl and decided to become a writer. Это частично автобиографическая история о молодом моряке, который влюбился в богатую девушку и решил стать писателем.
Jack London was a socialist. Джек Лондон был социалистом.
One of his famous books is The Iron Heel, the story of the government using force against the socialist movement. Одна из его знаменитых книг — «Железная пята», история о том, как правительство применило силу против социалистического движения.
He also spent some time at sea, when he was young. В молодости он также провел некоторое время в море.
He wrote many books about seafaring. Он написал много книг о мореплавании.
One of his best-known books about life at sea was The Sea Wolf. Одна из самых известных его книг о жизни в море — «Морской волк».
Many of his stories were made into movies and TV series. По многим его рассказам были сняты фильмы и телесериалы.
Because of his political beliefs, Jack London was published a lot in the Soviet Union. Из-за его политических убеждений Джека Лондона много публиковали в Советском Союзе.
Although London was a popular and well-paid author, at some point he had a depression. Хотя Лондон был популярным и хорошо оплачиваемым автором, в какой-то момент у него началась депрессия.
He had a writer’s block – could not write any stories. У него был творческий кризис — он не мог написать ни одного рассказа.
His family life was not happy and the house that he had been building burnt to the ground. Его семейная жизнь не была счастливой, а дом, который он строил, сгорел дотла.
Jack London died in 1916 in a state of depression. Джек Лондон умер в 1916 году в состоянии депрессии.

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  • writer – писатель.
  • perspective – точка зрения, перспектива.
  • autobiographical – автобиографический.
  • socialist – социалист.
  • government — правительство.
  • seafaring – мореплавание.
  • to publish – публиковать.
  • Soviet Union – Советский Союз.
  • well-paid – высокооплачиваемый.
  • writer’s block – творческий кризис, писательский блок.
  • to burn to the ground – гореть дотла.

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Jack London was a 19th century American author and journalist, best known for the adventure novels ‘White Fang’ and ‘The Call of the Wild.’

Who Was Jack London?

After working in the Klondike, Jack London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.

Early Years

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. Jack, as he came to call himself as a boy, was the son of Flora Wellman, an unwed mother, and William Chaney, an attorney, journalist and pioneering leader in the new field of American astrology.

His father was never part of his life, and his mother ended up marrying John London, a Civil War veteran, who moved his new family around the Bay Area before settling in Oakland.

London grew up working-class. He carved out his own hardscrabble life as a teen. He rode trains, pirated oysters, shoveled coal, worked on a sealing ship on the Pacific and found employment in a cannery. In his free time he hunkered down at libraries, soaking up novels and travel books.

The Young Writer

His life as a writer essentially began in 1893. That year he had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story.

Armed with just an eighth-grade education, London captured the $25 first prize, beating out college students from Berkeley and Stanford.

For London, the contest was an eye-opening experience, and he decided to dedicate his life to writing short stories. But he had trouble finding willing publishers. After trying to make a go of it on the East Coast, he returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, before heading north to Canada to seek at least a small fortune in the gold rush happening in the Yukon.

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By the age of 22, however, London still hadn’t put together much of a living. He had once again returned to California and was still determined to carve out a living as a writer. His experience in the Yukon had convinced him he had stories he could tell. In addition, his own poverty and that of the struggling men and women he encountered pushed him to embrace socialism.

In 1899 he began publishing stories in the Overland Monthly. The experience of writing and getting published greatly disciplined London as a writer. From that time forward, London made it a practice to write at least a thousand words a day.

Commercial Success

London found fame and some fortune at the age of 27 with his novel The Call of the Wild (1903), which told the story of a dog that finds its place in the world as a sled dog in the Yukon.

The success did little to soften London’s hard-driving lifestyle. A prolific writer, he published more than 50 books over the last 16 years of his life. The titles included The People of the Abyss (1903), which offered a scathing critique of capitalism; White Fang (1906), a popular tale about a wild wolf dog becoming domesticated; and John Barleycorn (1913), a memoir of sorts that detailed his lifelong battle with alcohol.

He charged forth in other ways, too. He covered the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 for Hearst papers, introduced American readers to Hawaii and the sport of surfing, and frequently lectured about the problems associated with capitalism.

Final Years and Death

In 1900 London married Bess Maddern. The couple had two daughters together, Joan and Bess. By some accounts Bess and London’s relationship was constructed less around love and more around the idea that they could have strong, healthy children together. It’s not surprising, then, that their marriage lasted just a few years. In 1905, following his divorce from Bess, London married Charmian Kittredge, whom he would be with for the rest of his life.

For much of the last decade of his life, London faced a number of health issues. This included kidney disease, which ended up taking his life. He died at his California ranch, which he shared with Kittredge, on November 22, 1916.

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