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Jack London

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

January 12, 1876

Died

November 22, 1916

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Adventure, Classics

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Haeckel, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Darwin, Ru ...more

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John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international 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 Fra ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 956,088 ratings · 39,800 reviews · 6,103 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of the Wild 3.90 avg rating — 429,776 ratings — published 1903 — 801 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Fang 4.02 avg rating — 189,729 ratings — published 1906 — 7133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild / White Fang 4.12 avg rating — 77,370 ratings — published 1906 — 456 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Eden 4.47 avg rating — 42,907 ratings — published 1908 — 2388 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Wolf 4.05 avg rating — 30,456 ratings — published 1904 — 4699 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Build a Fire 3.98 avg rating — 23,366 ratings — published 1902 — 213 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London, Earle Labor (Editor), Robert C. Leitz III (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 22,426 ratings — published 1903 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Plague 3.74 avg rating — 11,405 ratings — published 1912 — 1816 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Heel by Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator) 3.77 avg rating — 10,862 ratings — published 1908 — 182 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Star Rover 4.20 avg rating — 8,761 ratings — published 1914 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dogs of the Islands (2 books)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,141 ratings

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4.05 avg rating — 80 ratings

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4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings

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The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells, Less than 56 pages, 1904

77 votes, 25.0%

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura, 86-133 pages, 1906

73 votes, 23.7%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages +-, 1902

49 votes, 15.9%

And of Clay Are We Created Isabel Allende, 16 pages +-, 1984

41 votes, 13.3%

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, Less than 36, 1890

31 votes, 10.1%

Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, 80 +-, 1947

22 votes, 7.1%

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist, 104 pages, 1810

15 votes, 4.9%

308 total votes

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