Jack London
Author · 1876–1916

Jack London

Jack London was an American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916). Born in San Francisco.

Our catalogue lists 31 books by Jack London, mostly adventure fiction, classic fantasy and Victorian science fiction. They span 1902 to 2003. The most-read is The call of the wild. 14 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 25 have free LibriVox audiobooks.

Books by Jack London

Biography

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. 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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé *The People of the Abyss*, *The War of the Classes*, and *Before Adam*. **Source**: [Jack London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London) on Wikipedia.

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