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Definition: London, Jack from Philip's Encyclopedia

US novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his Alaskan novels, such as Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). The Iron Heel (1907) is a dystopian novel inspired by his socialist beliefs.

London, Jack

From Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Jack London took up a career in writing at a time when innovative printing technologies made magazines quite inexpensive to publish. Perhaps best known for the trilogy of Wolf books – The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and The Sea Wolf (1904) – London was also one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Along with his contemporaries in the newly emergent literary genres of realism and naturalism, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris, London freely borrowed from the discourses which described the industrial technologies of Taylorization and scientific engineering, as well as from cultural anthropology and the faits divers of the daily newspaper to endow his literary constructions with the formal authority of literal reality. The shift from romanticism to realism and naturalism was part of a more pervasive social transformation in which innovative industrialization processes had…
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Full text Article London, Jack

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Sailor, adventurer, and novelist of adventure tales. The time London spent in the Yukon Territory of Canada provided inspiration for some of his best works including The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), and White Fang (1906). His writings deal with the struggle for existence; many of…
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Full text Article LONDON, Jack (1876–1916)

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Full text Article PHYSICS, LAWS OF

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English petrologist …the laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature … The Natural History of Igneous Rocks Chapter XII (p. 282 ) The Macmillan Co. New York New York USA . 1909. American author It obeyed no known laws of physics, and overthrew…
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Full text Article SQUARE THE CIRCLE

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Greek playwright Met. These are – “Instruments” An atmospherical geometrical scale. First, you must understand, that the atmosphere Is form'd, – in a manner, – altogether, – partly, In the fashion of a furnace, or a funnel; I take this circular arc, with the moveable arm, And so, by shifting it…
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Full text Article CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC

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Organic Chemistry: The practice of transmuting vile substances into publications. Source undetermined. English chemist Deluged as we are with unnumbered facts that have often neither explanation nor obvious connection with one another, Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and…
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Full text Article Jack London (1876-1916) (b&w photo)

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Full text Article Jack London (1876-1916) (photogravure) (see also 126125)

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Full text Article Jack London 1876–1916

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US writer. His books, such as The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1907), reflect his experiences as a sailor, tramp, gold miner in the Klondike and alcoholic. He also wrote a futuristic political novel The Iron Heel (1907). The Call of the Wild. 1903 Title of book. In…
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Full text Article DARK AGE

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