Джек Лондон

live not to exist. I shall not waste my days

in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

He was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco.

scarred by the bitterness of poverty. His family was continually

on the move to find subsistence. At the age of ten the boy was on the street selling newspapers to supplement the family's meager income. 

Canadian men, went north to Alaska and the Klondike region

of Canada to search for gold. This was the Alaska Gold Rush. Although London never found any gold, his experience in the extreme environment of this cold part of the world gave him ideas for the stories he would write when he decided to return to California.

to write about his experiences. After winning a writing contest,

he succeeded in selling some of his stories and in 1900, he published a collection of his short stories, The Son of the Wolf.

popularity as an author. His exciting, often violent and brutal writing style

attracted readers from all over the world and his stories and novels were translated into many different languages.

for The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea-Wolf (1904), and other literary and

journalistic accomplishments.

a man who was abandoned by his partner and found

himself alone, side by side with the wolf.
Starving and injured, he struggles physically and spiritually to come to grips with what is true value of his life.

popular novels. The story follows a dog named Buck. The

dog is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands a number of times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton.

survival -- they are morality plays in which good wins

over evil. In WHITE FANG, virtue takes shape in a young prospector and his fiercely loyal wolf-dog. It's a timeless tale of courage and survival as well as a touching friendship between man and animal.

London about a young sailor struggling to become a writer.

Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible unless and until he reached their level of wealth and refinement.

It is a semi-autobiographical novel. Moreover, the character of Ruth Morse was modelled on Mabel Applegarth — the first love of London's life.

a cottage on his ranch. London's ashes were buried, together

with those of his second wife Charmian, in Jack London State Historic Park, California,