Jack London

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
# Titolo Anno
1 Jerry of the Islands 1917
2 Michael Brother of Jerry 1917
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 A Daughter of the Snows 1902
2 Burning Daylight 1902
3 The Kempton-Wace Letters 1903
4 The Sea-Wolf 1904
5 The Game 1905
6 White Fang 1906
7 Before Adam 1906
8 Martin Eden 1909
9 Theft 1910
10 The Abysmal Brute 1911
11 Adventure 1911
12 Hearts of Three 1911
13 Smoke Bellew 1912
14 The Valley of the Moon 1913
15 The Star Rover 1914
16 The Mutiny of the Elsinore 1914
17 Daughters of the Rich 1915
18 The Little Lady of the Big House 1916
19 The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. 1963
20 The Lodger 2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Wisdom Of The Trail 1899
2 The Man with the Gash 1900
3 The God of His Fathers 1901
4 The Cruise of the Dazzler 1902
5 The Death of Ligoun 1902
6 To Build a Fire 1903
7 The Shadow and the Flash 1903
8 How I Became a Socialist 1903
9 The Marriage of Lit-Lit 1903
10 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
15 Flush of Gold 1907
16 The Heathen 1908
17 The Iron Heel 1908
18 The Taste of the Meat 1910
19 The Eternity of Forms 1910
20 A Daughter of the Aurora/A Piece of Steak 1911
21 The Scarlet Plague 1912
22 The Jacket 1914
23 At the Rainbow's End 1914
24 When Alice Told Her Soul 1916
25 Curious Fragments 1986
26 The League of the Old Men 2004
27 The Story of Keesh 2008
28 The Chinago 2008
29 To the Man on the Trail 2008
30 A Thousand Deaths 2010
31 Bulls 2013
32 Confession 2013
33 The Red One 2014
34 The Men of the Forty Mile 2014
35 Hoboes That Pass in the Night 2014
36 The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen 2014
37 The First Poet 2014
38 The Hanging of Cultus George 2014
39 A Flutter in Eggs 2014
40 The King of Mazy May 2014
41 Jack London - The Son of the Wolf 2017
42 The Faith of Men 2017
43 The Night Born 2019
44 The Call of the Wild - 2019
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 The Son of the Wolf 1900
2 Dutch Courage and Other Stories 1900
3 The Faith of Men and Other Stories 1902
4 Children of the Frost 1902
5 A Daughter of the Aurora 1902
6 Amateur Night 1903
7 The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories 1905
8 Tales of the Fish Patrol 1905
9 Brown Wolf and Other Stories 1906
10 A Day's Lodging 1906
11 The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories 1906
12 Brown Wolf 1906
13 Moon-Face and Other Stories 1906
14 The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 1907
15 Aloha OE 1908
16 To Build a Fire and Other Stories 1908
17 The Strength of the Strong 1909
18 The Madness of John Harned 1909
19 The Benefit of the Doubt 1910
20 South Sea Tales 1911
21 A Son of the Sun 1912
22 The Yukon writings of Jack London 1912
23 The House of Pride 1912
24 The Night-Born and Other Stories 1913
25 In Hawaii with Jack London 1916
26 The Turtles of Tasman 1916
27 The Human Drift 1917
28 On the Makaloa Mat 1919
29 The Bones of Kahekili 1919
30 The Sun-Dog Trail And Other Stories 1951
31 Jack London's California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings 1955
32 White Fang, and Other Stories 1963
33 The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories 1964
34 Stories of Hawaii 1965
35 The Call of the Wild and Other Stories 1965
36 The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London 1975
37 The Unabridged Jack London 1981
38 Klondike Tales 1982
39 The Dream of Debs/Account of the San Francisco Cooks & Waiters Strike 1985
40 Tales of Hawaii 1989
41 Tales of the Pacific 1989
42 The Collected Jack London 1991
43 Five Great Short Stories 1992
44 Northland Stories 1997
45 Fantastic Tales 1998
46 The Plays of Jack London 2000
47 Jack London in Aloha-Land 2000
48 Lost Face And Other Stories 2005
49 Stories of Ships and the Sea 2006
50 Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters 2006
51 The Asian Writings of Jack London 2009
52 San Francisco Stories 2010
53 Sailing Ships and Other Adventures 2011
54 Island Tales... 2012
55 The Science Fiction of Jack London 2012
56 Uncollected Stories 2013
57 When God Laughs and Other Stories 2013
58 'The Turtles of Tasman' and Other Stories 2013
59 'The Red One' and Other Stories 2013
60 'The Strength of the Strong' and Other Stories 2013
61 The Curious Fragment 2013
62 The Classic Works of Jack London 2014
63 The Leopard Man's Story 2014
64 The Complete Poetry of Jack London 2014
65 Negore the Coward 2014
66 Small-Boat Sailing 2014
67 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 1 2015
68 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 2 2015
69 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 3 2015
70 The Poetical Works of Jack London 2015
71 Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories 2016
72 Tales of the Klondyke 2016
73 Jack London - Moon-Face & Other Stories 2016
74 Jack London - The Science Fiction Stories - Volume 2 2017
75 Lost Face. 2018
76 Love Of Life And Other Stories 2019
77 Love of Life & Other Stories Illustrated 2019
78 Jack London Dog Stories 2019
79 Jack London's Stories for Boys 2020
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 The People of the Abyss 1903
2 The War of the Classes 1906
3 The Cruise of the Snark 1907
4 The Road 1907
5 Revolution and Other Essays 1909
6 John Barleycorn 1913
7 Essays of Revolt 1926
8 No Mentor But Myself 1978
9 Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing 1981
10 Our Hawaii 2015
Jack London Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories 1921
2 Great Tales of Action and Adventure 1958
3 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959 1959
4 50 Great American Short Stories 1963
5 A St. Nicholas Anthology 1969
6 21 Great Stories 1969
7 Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 1983
8 Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls 1985
9 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories 1993
10 The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark 2000
11 The Little Big Book of California 2005
12 The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic 2007
13 San Francisco Noir 2 2009
14 50 Classic Novellas 2011
15 The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure 2011
16 Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction 2014
17 Beach Books Anthology 2023