Name: The night-born, and also The madness of John Harned, When the world was young,: The benefit of the doubt, Winged blackmail, Bunches of knuckles, War,
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Author: London, Jack
ISBN: 9781539515296

portada The night-born, and also The madness of John Harned, When the world was young,: The benefit of the doubt, Winged blackmail, Bunches of knuckles, War,

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781539515296

Synopsis "The night-born, and also The madness of John Harned, When the world was young,: The benefit of the doubt, Winged blackmail, Bunches of knuckles, War,"

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he 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 part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes

Jack London

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Jack London (1876-1916), seudónimo de John Griffith Chaney, es uno de los grandes escritores estadounidenses de los albores del siglo XX. Su mundo se inspira en una interpretación muy subjetiva de la filosofía de Nietzsche y se construye a partir del principio de lucha por la supervivencia. Nacido en San Francisco, fue esencialmente un niño autodidacta que leía con avidez los fondos de la biblioteca pública. Con diecisiete años se embarcó en su primera goleta, rumbo a Japón. Tras varias experiencias como marinero y vagabundo -razón por la que también fue encarcelado-, London acudió a la Oakland High School y, posteriormente, a la Universidad de California, que tuvo que abandonar por problemas económicos. Como muchos, sufrió la fiebre del oro hasta que, finalmente, se dedicó a la escritura.

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