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London, Jack

  1. An American writer whose best-known adventure novels are based on his experiences during the Klondike gold rush . His early works, including The Call of the Wild and White Fang , made him the most widely read author of the time. Unable to repeat his earlier success, he died of a drug overdose in 1916 at the age of forty.


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Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.

I held my nose and I ate Jack London and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China.

Indeed, Warmuth eventually would compile a list of Jack London appropriations in Chronicles that ran 12 pages long.

The San Francisco Earthquake, I suspect, is here because of what Jack London made of it.

He is the author of three novels as well as a book on fly-fishing and has edited works by Mark Twain, Jack London and Zane Grey.

I mention Jack London in this connection, because he has said the last word on the subject of alcohol.

An anthology of the literature of social protest, with an introduction by Jack London, who calls it "this humanist Holy-book."

It is a string of exciting adventures, yet it forcefully conveys an unforgetable idea and makes a typical Jack London book.

It is a string of exciting adventures, yet it forcefully conveys an unforgettable idea and makes a typical Jack London book.

Mrs. Jack London's work has been a labour of love, and will be welcomed by millions of readers.

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