Jack London

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his...

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Soldier SoldierSeries • 1991The Call of the WildMovie • 2020The Ballad of Buster ScruggsMovie • 2018The Minions of MidasSeries • 2020White FangMovie • 1991Emperor of the NorthMovie • 1973Martin EdenMovie • 2019White FangMovie • 2018Call of the WildMovie • 1935White Fang 2: Myth of the White WolfMovie • 1994The Call of the Wild: Dog of the YukonMovie • 1997White FangMovie • 1973Call of the WildMovie • 2009The Call of the WildMovie • 1972The Sea WolfMovie • 1941The Sea WolfSeries • 1971Challenge to White FangMovie • 1974The Assassination BureauMovie • 1969The Sea WolfMovie • 1993By the LawMovie • 1926