Jack London

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. The book is unusual among London's writings (and in the literature of the time in general) in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. Much of the narrative is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, including events in San Francisco and Sonoma County.

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing

Ce roman est le r cit d'un m nage trois, d'un amour lib r de la morale ordinaire. Ce livre est un manifeste f ministe en faveur du libre choix amoureux des femmes, qui provoqua un scandale aux tats-Unis lors de sa parution. Voici ce que disait l'auteur de ce roman: Je tiens un splendide sujet de roman. Je viens de passer trois jours prendre des notes pour tre s r de bien le cerner. pr sent, je l'ai bien en main. Seulement trois personnages - un trio exceptionnel dans une situation exceptionnelle. Chacun des trois est sympathique, chacun des trois a du caract re. Ce sera un livre gagnant tous les coups. Il est enti rement domin par le sexe, du d but la fin - sans qu'aucune aventure sexuelle soit en fait accomplie ou un million de kilom tres de l' tre. Oh, mes trois personnages ne sont ni pleurnichards ni moralistes. Ils sont cultiv s, modernes et en m me temps profond ment primitifs. Et quand l'histoire sera finie, le lecteur tirera son chapeau chacun des trois: Bon Dieu C'est un homme ou Bon Dieu C' tait une femme mesure que j'avance dans ce roman, je suis de plus en plus port croire que c'est l'aboutissement de toute notre vie d' crivain que j'ai l entre les mains. Si l'on excepte mon punch habituel qu'on retrouve du d but la fin, on ne croira pas que c'est moi qui l'ai crit, tellement c'est si nouveau et diff rent de tout ce que j'ai fait jusqu'ici.

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes.

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. Eden represents writers' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a "cunning arrangement of cogs" immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip. The central theme of Eden's developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of the K nstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist. Eden differs from London in that Eden rejects socialism, attacking it as "slave morality", and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it."

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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild. London spent almost a year in the Yukon collecting material for the book. The story was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published a month later in book form. The book