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Apr 11, 2024 · The 1935 film The Call of the Wild, directed by William Wellman and starring Clark Gable, focuses solely on John Thornton and Buck, while a 1972 film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston, stays truer to the plot of the novel. The Call of the Wild by Jack London was published in 1903. The plot follows the life of Buck, a pet dog, as he is ...
May 21, 2018 · Jack London. BORN: January 12, 1876 • San Francisco, California. DIED: November 22, 1916 • Glen Ellen, California. Writer. Jack London was a writer whose style was in direct opposition of the popular writing of the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was the period in history following the Civil War and Reconstruction (roughly the final twenty-three ...
Feb 1, 2022 · Inside Jack London’s Story, From The Gold Rush To Literary Fame. From adventurer to author to activist, John Griffith London led a dramatic life in keeping with his celebrated novels like "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild." Jack London was the kind of man who fully embodied the spirit of the time in which he lived — for better and for ...
Jack London var mycket produktiv och hann, trots sitt korta liv, med att skriva totalt 49 romaner och många noveller. Som författare blev han oerhört framgångsrik, och fler än 200 översättningar till svenska av hans verk har gjorts. Det finns två sidor av den litteräre Jack London: dels den samhällskritiska, dels den vildmarksberättande.
Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, California, in 1916, the son of Flora Wellman and Henry Chaney. Jack's parents were not married at the time of his birth. Flora married a widower, John London, the same year that her son was born. John was a loving stepfather, but undertook several business and agricultural enterprises ...
ジャック・ロンドンJack London. ジャック・ロンドン （ 英: Jack London 、 1876年 1月12日 - 1916年 11月22日 ）は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 作家 。. 出生名はジョン・グリフィス・チェイニー（John Griffith Chaney）。.
About the Author. Jack London —his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time he was sixteen he had been both an oyster pirate and a member of the Fish Patrol in San Francisco Bay.
