The Works of Jack London



The Works of Jack London

Jack London grew up in Oakland, California. He didn't like school much, but his early passion for writing was encouraged by city librarian Ina Coolbrith. Though he attended one year of college at the University of California, his real education was out in the rough and tumble world. Jack joined the great Klondike gold rush, and got there ahead of the crowd. His expertise with boats, earned as an oyster pirate on San Francisco Bay, made him a valuable man on the Yukon River in the year 1898. He didn't do well as a miner (most didn't) but he travelled around and gathered material that he would spin into books for years afterwards. At one time London was the most published author in the world. This was due to a combination of the great appeal of his books (especially the animal stories), and the fact that we was a lifelong socialist, and thus favored in the Soviet Union and its satellites. Near the end of his short life he bought a ranch north of Sonoma (the Valley of the Moon). By the time he died there in 1916, at the age of 40, he had written over 50 books. The tiny cabin London lived in through a Yukon winter was dismantled and re-assembled to make two cabins, one is now in Dawson City (not too far from where the original stood), and the other is at Jack London Square in Oakland (this site has panoramas of both). His Beauty Ranch (with the ruins of Wolf House, the dream house that burned down before he could move in) is in Jack London State Park in the Sonoma Valley.

	The Far North The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories The Call of the Wild: Annotated and Illustrated, Daniel Dyer (ed.) Klondike Tales The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North Sailing Ships and Pacific Islands South Sea Tales The Cruise of the Snark Stories of Hawaii The Star Rover The Sea Wolf California Jack London's Golden State: Selected California Writings The Valley of the Moon Sports The Game The Abysmal Brute Social and Political The People of the Abyss Before Adam Iron Heel Autobiography and Biography Martin Eden John Barleycorn: "Alcoholic Memoirs" Jack London: A Life, by Alex Kershaw Miscellaneous The Plays of Jack London



	Movies Based on Jack London's Books White Fang (1991), starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke (VHS) Call of the Wild (1972), starring Charlton Heston (VHS) The Sea Wolf (1941), starring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino (VHS)