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Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his junior, he was a boundlessly lively adventurer on the bustling Western Coast - an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by converts. He spent his short life rapidly accumulating the encounters that would advise his acclaimed best-selling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his report suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the person was suffering from contradictions. He chronicled character at its most savage but wept helplessly at the fatalities of his favorite animals. At his maximum the best paid writer in america, he was nevertheless pressured to work under regular pressure for the money. An irrepressibly positive crusader for social justice and a fan of mankind, he was also at the mercy of spells of bitter invective, especially as his health dropped. Brand by shortsighted critics only a small amount more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog reviews, he left out a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An North american Life, the known Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the outstanding and complicated novelist lost behind the myth-at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a guy alive with ideas whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned before day he passed away. Returning London to his proper devote the North american pantheon, Labor resurrects a significant American novelist in his full fireplace and glory.
