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Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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Jack London
7,844 books7,781 followersJohn Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and 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.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during 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 animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during 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".
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May 15, 2021
Jack London considered this work an essay rather than a short story, and with good reason. A nice piece of writing for a seventeen year old, it is his first published work and is widely available free on the internet. This essay appeared in a San Francisco newspaper about seven months after the event it depicts. It's about a storm off the coast of Japan and the crew's reaction to the storm. The "story" is missing many elements one would expect of a short story, such as fictional, named characters. Still it does have one main element: a struggle against a foe, and an outcome with a theme.
One of the more curious elements of the story is the setting. London references a "Cape Jerimo" of Japan, but there is no such place. He no doubt meant Cape Erimo, the southernmost tip of Hokkaido, the most northern of Japan's four major islands, but this is never corrected.
One of the more curious elements of the story is the setting. London references a "Cape Jerimo" of Japan, but there is no such place. He no doubt meant Cape Erimo, the southernmost tip of Hokkaido, the most northern of Japan's four major islands, but this is never corrected.
October 23, 2022
Незамысловатая история про то как шхуна попала в шторм. Некоторые попытки изящного стиля только мешают.
December 31, 2022
Jack London’s first published work!!!
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