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Chapter 6: Jack
London (1876-1916)
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Author of more than fifty
books, Jack London, born in San Francisco, grew up across the bay in
Oakland. Variously a tramp, a fisherman, a longshoreman, and a
sailor, London also worked as a gold prospector and a war
correspondent. Among his influences are those of Social Darwinism,
Nietszche, and Marx. Although his writings suggest a complexity of
ideas, he is commonly categorized as a literary naturalist. His
adventure stories of Alaska and the Pacific continue to fascinate new
generations of readers.
Primary
Works
Novels
A Daughter of the
Snows, 1902; The Call of the Wild, 1903; People of
the Abyss, 1903; The Sea-Wolf, 1904; The War of the
Classes, 1905; White Fang, 1905; Before Adam,
1907;The Human Drift, 1907; The Iron Heel, 1908;
Martin Eden, 1909; Burning Daylight, 1910;
Revolution and Other Essays, 1910; Adventure, 1911;
The Cruise of the Snark, 1911; John Barleycorn
(autobiographical), 1913; The Valley of the Moon, 1913;
The Mutiny of the Elsinore, 1914; The Little Lady of the
Big House, 1915; The Star Rover, 1915 (published in
England as The Jacket, 1915); The Acorn Planter,
1916; On the Makaoloa Mat, 1919.
Short Story
Collections
The Son of the
Wolf,1900 includes "The White Silence."
The God of His Fathers
& Other Stories,1901 includes "The Scorn of Women" and "A
Daughter of the Aurora."
Children of the
Frost,1902 includes "The Law of Life" and "Nam-Bok, the
Liar."
The Faith of Men &
Other Stories, 1904 includes "The story of Jees Uck" and "The
One Thousand Dozen."
Tales of the Fish
Patrol, 1905 includes "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates."
Moon-Face & Other
Stories,1906 includes "All Gold Canyon" and "Planchette."
Love of Life &
Other Stories,1907 includes "Brown Wolf" and "The Story of
Keesh."
Lost Face,1910
includes "To Build a Fire."
South Sea
Tales,1911 includes "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans."
When God Laughs &
Other Stories, 1911 includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece
of Steak," and "Chinago."
The House of Pride
& Other Tales of Hawaii,1912 includes "Koloau the Leper"
and "The Sheriff of Kona."
The Strength of the
Strong,1914 includes "The Dream of Debs," "South of the Slot,"
and "The Unparalleled Invasion."
The Turtles of
Tasman, 1916 includes "Told in the Drooling Ward."
The Red
One,1918.
On the Makaloa
Mat,1919 includes "Shin Bones" and "The Water Baby."
Uncollected Stories
including "A Thousand Deaths."
Play
The Acorn-Planter
Nonfiction
The People of the
Abyss,1903 narrative and photgraphs of the slums of
London.
War of the
Classes,1905 speeches on socialism
John Barleycorn,
1913 ann autobiographical memoir.
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Bibliography 1980-Present
Auerbach, Johnathan. Male
Call: Becoming Jack London. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.
Bender, Bert. Evolution
and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives during the Eclipse of
Darwinism. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2004.
Cassuto, Leonard and Jeanne
C. Reesman, eds. Rereading Jack London. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 1996.
Clymer, Jeffory A.
America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the
Written Word. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2003.
Hedrick, Joan D. Solitary
comrade, Jack London and his work. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina P, 1982. PS3523 .O46 Z637
Kershaw, Alex. Jack
London: A Life. NY: St. Martin's, 1997.
Labor, Earle, and Jeanne C.
Reesman. Jack London. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1994. PS3523 .O46
Z68
Lundquist, James. Jack
London: adventures, ideas, and fiction. NY: Ungar, 1987. .PS3523
.O46 Z764
Lye, Colleen. America's
Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2005.
Martin, Stoddard.
California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, The Tough
Guys. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Nuernberg, Susan, ed. The
Critical Response to Jack London. Westwood, CT.: Greenwood Press,
1995.
Perry, John. Jack London,
an American myth. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981. PS3523.O46
Z85
Rossen, Robert., and others.
Jack London's The Sea Wolf: A Screenplay. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois UP, 1998.
Stasz, Clarice. Jack
London's Women. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.
Tavernier-Courbin,
Jacqueline. Critical essays on Jack London. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1983. PS3523 .O46 Z98195
- - -. The Call of the
Wild: A Naturalistic Romance. NY: Twayne, 1994.
Walker, Dale L. ed. No
Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing. Stanford:
Stanford UP, 1999.
Watson, Charles N. The
Novels of Jack London: A reappraisal. Madison: U of Wisconsin P,
1983. PS3523 .O46 Z9954
Williams, Tony. Jack
London: The Movies, An Historical Survey. Los Angeles: David
Rejl, 1992.
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