Jack London John Griffith London Born John Griffith
Jack London John Griffith London (Born John Griffith Chaney); January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 (Died aged 40) Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes: London's true métier was the short story. . . London's true genius lay in the short form, 7, 500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7, 500 generally —but certainly not always —could have benefited from self-editing. London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly wellconstructed.
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So many bizaare things about Jack London. He and Hp. S were born the same day of the year. They both were pushed to write short stories or poetry London suffered from intoxication, even marriage problems. What would have happened to any of us if we had not met Srila Prabhupada. Anjana Suta Academy www. Jay. Rama. US rev. 2020 July 23
It makes you wonder: Who were you in your previous life, or what archetype has been stalking you.
"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all his stories. After publishing a tame version of this story—with a sunny outcome—in The Youth's Companion in 1902, London offered a second, more severe take on the man's predicament in The Century Magazine in 1908. Reading both provides an illustration of London's growth and maturation as a writer. As Labor (1994) observes: "To compare the two versions is itself an instructive lesson in what distinguished a great work of literary art from a good children's story. "
Several of London's stories would today be classified as science fiction. “The Red One" is a late story from a period when London was intrigued by theories of the psychiatrist and writer Jung. It tells of an island tribe held in thrall by an extraterrestrial object. London's most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden In a letter dated December 27, 1901, London's Macmillan publisher George Platt Brett, Sr. , said "he believed Jack's fiction represented 'the very best kind of work' done in America. "[88] Critic Maxwell Geismar called The Call of the Wild "a beautiful prose poem"; editor Franklin Walker said that it "belongs on a shelf with Walden and Huckleberry Finn"; and novelist E. L. Doctorow called it "a mordant parable. . . his masterpiece. "
The historian Dale L. Walker commented: Jack London was an uncomfortable novelist, that form too long for his natural impatience and the quickness of his mind. His novels, even the best of them, are hugely flawed. Some critics have said that his novels are episodic and resemble linked short stories. Dale L. Walker writes: The Star Rover, that magnificent experiment, is actually a series of short stories connected by a unifying device. . . Smoke Bellew is a series of stories bound together in a novel-like form by their reappearing protagonist, Kit Bellew; and John Barleycorn. . . is a synoptic series of short episodes. Ambrose Bierce said of The Sea. Wolf that "the great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen. . . the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime. " However, he noted, "The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful. ”
But. . . At the time of his death at 40 years old, he suffered from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism, and uremia; he was in extreme pain and taking morphine.
ŚB 1. 1. 22 tvaṁ naḥ sandarśito dhātrā dustaraṁ nistitīrṣatām kaliṁ sattva-haraṁ puṁsāṁ karṇa-dhāra ivārṇavam We think that we have met Your Goodness by the will of providence, just so that we may accept you as captain of the ship for those who desire to cross the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of a human being.
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