Jack London fu un autore, giornalista e attivista sociale statunitense, nato il 12 gennaio 1876 a San Francisco, California. È noto principalmente per i suoi romanzi "Il richiamo della foresta", "Lupo di mare" e "Zanna Bianca", ambientati durante la corsa all'oro del Klondike. London fu un pioniere del giornalismo commerciale e divenne uno dei primi autori americani a raggiungere la fama e la ricchezza internazionale attraverso la sua scrittura.
Le esperienze di London nel Klondike Gold Rush e il suo lavoro come pirata di ostriche, marinaio, cacciatore di foche e senzatetto influenzarono notevolmente la sua scrittura. Fu in gran parte autodidatta dopo la scuola elementare a causa delle difficoltà finanziarie della sua giovinezza. Le sue esperienze personali servirono da fondamento per la maggior parte delle trame dei suoi romanzi. Nella piena della sua carriera, London era l'autore più popolare e meglio pagato del suo tempo.
Oltre ad essere un autore, London fu anche un giornalista, scrittore di racconti e attivista sociale. Era membro del gruppo letterario radicale "The Crowd" di San Francisco e un fervente sostenitore dell'unione, dei diritti dei lavoratori e del socialismo. Le sue opere trattavano spesso questi temi, tra cui il romanzo distopico "The Iron Heel", l'inchiesta non fiction "The People of the Abyss" e "War of the Classes".
I lavori più famosi di London, come "Il richiamo della foresta" e "Zanna Bianca", rappresentavano romanticamente le lotte elementari per la sopravvivenza della vita. Fu influenzato da personalità popolari del suo tempo, tra cui Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, H.G. Wells e Thomas Henry Huxley. London morì il 22 novembre 1916 e le sue ceneri furono sepolte sulla sua proprietà a Glen Ellen, California.
Dogs of the Islands Books
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Jerry of the Islands
1917
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Michael Brother of Jerry
1917
Romanzi singoli
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A Daughter of the Snows
1902
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Burning Daylight
1902
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The Kempton-Wace Letters
1903
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The Sea-Wolf
1904
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The Game
1905
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White Fang
1906
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Before Adam
1906
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Martin Eden
1909
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Theft
1910
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The Abysmal Brute
1911
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Adventure
1911
12
Hearts of Three
1911
13
Smoke Bellew
1912
14
The Valley of the Moon
1913
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The Star Rover
1914
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
1914
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Daughters of the Rich
1915
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The Little Lady of the Big House
1916
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The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
1963
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The Lodger
2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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The Wisdom Of The Trail
1899
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The Man with the Gash
1900
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The God of His Fathers
1901
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The Cruise of the Dazzler
1902
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The Death of Ligoun
1902
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To Build a Fire
1903
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The Shadow and the Flash
1903
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How I Became a Socialist
1903
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The Marriage of Lit-Lit
1903
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Demetrios Contos
1903
11
The Call of the Wild and Typhoon
1903
12
What Life Means to Me
1905
13
Love of Life
1905
14
The Enemy of All the World
1907
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Flush of Gold
1907
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The Heathen
1908
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The Iron Heel
1908
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The Taste of the Meat
1910
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The Eternity of Forms
1910
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A Daughter of the Aurora/A Piece of Steak
1911
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The Scarlet Plague
1912
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The Jacket
1914
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At the Rainbow's End
1914
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When Alice Told Her Soul
1916
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Curious Fragments
1986
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The League of the Old Men
2004
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The Story of Keesh
2008
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The Chinago
2008
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To the Man on the Trail
2008
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A Thousand Deaths
2010
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Bulls
2013
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Confession
2013
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The Red One
2014
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The Men of the Forty Mile
2014
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Hoboes That Pass in the Night
2014
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The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen
2014
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The First Poet
2014
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The Hanging of Cultus George
2014
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A Flutter in Eggs
2014
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The King of Mazy May
2014
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Jack London - The Son of the Wolf
2017
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The Faith of Men
2017
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The Night Born
2019
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The Call of the Wild -
2019
Raccolte di racconti
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The Son of the Wolf
1900
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Dutch Courage and Other Stories
1900
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The Faith of Men and Other Stories
1902
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Children of the Frost
1902
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A Daughter of the Aurora
1902
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Amateur Night
1903
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The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories
1905
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
1905
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Brown Wolf and Other Stories
1906
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A Day's Lodging
1906
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
1906
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Brown Wolf
1906
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Moon-Face and Other Stories
1906
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The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
1907
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Aloha OE
1908
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
1908
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The Strength of the Strong
1909
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The Madness of John Harned
1909
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The Benefit of the Doubt
1910
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South Sea Tales
1911
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A Son of the Sun
1912
22
The Yukon writings of Jack London
1912
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The House of Pride
1912
24
The Night-Born and Other Stories
1913
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In Hawaii with Jack London
1916
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The Turtles of Tasman
1916
27
The Human Drift
1917
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On the Makaloa Mat
1919
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The Bones of Kahekili
1919
30
The Sun-Dog Trail And Other Stories
1951
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Jack London's California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings
1955
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White Fang, and Other Stories
1963
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The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories
1964
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Stories of Hawaii
1965
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The Call of the Wild and Other Stories
1965
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The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London
1975
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The Unabridged Jack London
1981
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Klondike Tales
1982
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The Dream of Debs/Account of the San Francisco Cooks & Waiters Strike
1985
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Tales of Hawaii
1989
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Tales of the Pacific
1989
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The Collected Jack London
1991
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Five Great Short Stories
1992
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Northland Stories
1997
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Fantastic Tales
1998
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The Plays of Jack London
2000
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Jack London in Aloha-Land
2000
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Lost Face And Other Stories
2005
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Stories of Ships and the Sea
2006
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Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters
2006
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The Asian Writings of Jack London
2009
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San Francisco Stories
2010
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Sailing Ships and Other Adventures
2011
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Island Tales...
2012
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The Science Fiction of Jack London
2012
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Uncollected Stories
2013
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When God Laughs and Other Stories
2013
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'The Turtles of Tasman' and Other Stories
2013
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'The Red One' and Other Stories
2013
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'The Strength of the Strong' and Other Stories
2013
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The Curious Fragment
2013
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The Classic Works of Jack London
2014
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The Leopard Man's Story
2014
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The Complete Poetry of Jack London
2014
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Negore the Coward
2014
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Small-Boat Sailing
2014
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 1
2015
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 2
2015
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The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 3
2015
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The Poetical Works of Jack London
2015
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Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
2016
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Tales of the Klondyke
2016
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Jack London - Moon-Face & Other Stories
2016
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Jack London - The Science Fiction Stories - Volume 2
2017
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Lost Face.
2018
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Love Of Life And Other Stories
2019
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Love of Life & Other Stories Illustrated
2019
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Jack London Dog Stories
2019
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Jack London's Stories for Boys
2020
Libri di non-fiction
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The People of the Abyss
1903
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The War of the Classes
1906
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The Cruise of the Snark
1907
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The Road
1907
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Revolution and Other Essays
1909
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John Barleycorn
1913
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Essays of Revolt
1926
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No Mentor But Myself
1978
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Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing
1981
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Our Hawaii
2015
Jack London Anthologies
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The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
1921
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Great Tales of Action and Adventure
1958
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959
1959
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50 Great American Short Stories
1963
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A St. Nicholas Anthology
1969
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21 Great Stories
1969
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Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1
1983
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Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls
1985
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100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
1993
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The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark
2000
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The Little Big Book of California
2005
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The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
2007
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San Francisco Noir 2
2009
14
50 Classic Novellas
2011
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The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure
2011
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Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction